 No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when...  How to Do it - Pagina 109door Edward Everett Hale - 1871 - 269 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pagina’s
...the mind back to the time when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when cameleopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The...century, to the Pope, who crowned Pepin in the eighth j and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pagina’s
...amphitheatre. Tlie proudest royal houses are but of yesteftla;,, when compared with the line of the fuprcia< pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series...who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to tb>. pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; ал'. far beyond the time of Pepin the aujid dynasty ascends,... | |
 | 1843 - 784 pagina’s
...the mind hack to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon; and when camelcopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The...when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. The line we trace ' back, in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth... | |
 | Vanbrugh Livingston - 1843 - 278 pagina’s
...the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when tame leopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontifls. That line we trace back in an unbroken... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and selves : — they stand simply for what ihe Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century, to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth... | |
 | James Spencer Northcote - 1846 - 156 pagina’s
...then judge whether this be not the kingdom, which, as the prophets speak, shall " stand for ever." " The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs; — the Republic of Venice is modern when compared with the Papacy;—and the Republic of Venice is... | |
 | 1846 - 278 pagina’s
...when oameleopards and tigers hounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are hat of yesterday when compared with the line of' the supreme pontiffs. That line we trace hack in an unhroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope... | |
 | 856 pagina’s
...appears to care but little either for Rome or her antagonists, saving in an intellectual point of view. "The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the lme of the supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned... | |
 | Jaime Luciano Balmes - 1849 - 486 pagina’s
...the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when cameleopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The...yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontifls. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the... | |
 | William Francis Cleary - 1850 - 240 pagina’s
...the mind back to the time when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when cameiopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but cf yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back, in an- unbroken... | |
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