 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 688 pages
...ecclesiastical champion to the honors of a saint; a magnanimous sinner (say the chronicles of the times), who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died...After his decease, the tedious and equal suspense of the conclave was fixed by the dexterity of the French faction. A specious offer was made and accepted,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 pages
...dark-eyed man, who afterwards became notorious as Archbishop Laud, of whom it has been said, " He came in like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." Charles was eager to complete the scheme of church polity which his father had begun, and during his... | |
 | Christopher George Ellaby - Rome (Italy) - 1904 - 368 pages
...seriously claimed the right of deposing the great temporal sovereigns, and of whom it was said that he " entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog " ; and Clement VIII., the clever, laborious, ascetic prelate, who received Henry IV. into the Catholic... | |
 | Christopher Hare - Italy - 1908 - 370 pages
...that "never died Pope in worse repute." Amongst the sneers of Pasquino we find : " Leo X came to power like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." If such was the impression which he left, we cannot wonder that the Cardinals would not vote for another... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - 1919 - 354 pages
...Anagni, smitten with'blows, and made a prisoner. His career has been described in an apt epigram, "He entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." Thus Anagni offsets the memory of Canossa. This contest of Philip with Boniface led to searching investigations... | |
 | Heiko A. Oberman - Church history - 2003 - 348 pages
...up the apostolate, he asserted the papal lordship over all, and he established indulgences. He began like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. Furthermore Antoninus says that Boniface claimed that plenary indulgences would continue to be valid... | |
 | American Protestant Association - Protestantism - 1845 - 398 pages
...knocking his head against the wall like one in desperation. He entered the papacy, it has been said, like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. John the Twenty-third seems, if possible, to have exceeded all his predecessors in enormity. This pontiff... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - Theology - 1894 - 522 pages
...Judges Ix. 33 to 29. Verses 33 to 34. It was written of Pope Boniface VIII, that he entered the popedom like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. The same could be written of Ablmelech. The men of Shechem who had aided him In his foul treatment... | |
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... who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. He was succeeded by Benedict the Eleventh, the mildest of mankind. Yet he excommunicated the impious emissaries of Philip, and devoted the city and people of Anagni by a tremendous... 
