 | John Foxe - Christian martyrs - 1841 - 1008 pages
...predecessor, 593 ; a heretic, 594 ; besieged, nearly famished, and dies, 601 ; the eighth Nero, came in like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog, 585 ; letter of complaint of king, nobles, and commons to, 639. Boniface IX-, bull of, against the... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...and another time the son of Venus.1 Pope Boniface the Eighth, it is said, crept into the papal throne like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. And who could believe it to be the same Nero, that perfect image of all cruelty, who, in the beginning... | |
 | Church history - 1848 - 408 pages
...denied the Trinity, the incarnation, the immortality of the soul, entered the Popedom, it was said, like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. JOHN XXII., deposed by the Council of Constance, was a rank infidel, and was convicted of crimes so... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...ecclesiastical champion to the honors of a saiat ; a magnanimous sinner, (say the chronicles of the times,) who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died...curse, whose effects are still visible to the eyes of superstition.78 After his decease, the tedious and equal suspense of the conclave was fixed by the... | |
 | Arminianism - 1851 - 658 pages
...year of the great Jubilee." The reigning Pontiff was Boniface VIII. ; of whom it was said, that " he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." The design of the jubilee was two-fold : —first, to bring pilgrims to Rome, that, through their offerings,... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - Protestants - 1852 - 818 pages
...the most arrogant and audacious of the Roman pontiffs — of whom it has been justly said, that " he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." It is true, that, in the primitive church, when severe penances were imposed, some parts of them were... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Anti-Catholicism - 1852 - 424 pages
...Trinity, the Incarnation, and the immortality of the soul; and is said to have entered the Popedom like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. The c 2 actual reign of a female Pope is historically proved, and also that Alexander VI. died from... | |
 | William Shannon - Irish poetry - 1852 - 294 pages
...VIII. denied the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Immortality of the Soul. He entered the Popedom like a Fox, reigned like a Lion, and died like a Dog ! 1297. Crusade against the Albigenses. 1308. The holy See translated to Avignon, where it remained... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...ecclesiastical champion to the honours 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,... | |
 | James Craigie Robertson - Church history - 1873 - 788 pages
...an enemy of the French Church and kingdom ;' and he quoted against him the saying as to his having entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." As to his own behaviour at Anagni, he asserted that he had been obliged to use force, because the pope... | |
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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... 
