General History of Civilization in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution

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D. Appleton, 1846 - 316 sider
 

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Side 48 - At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it had formed itself into a corporate body.
Side 25 - Wherever the exterior condition of man becomes enlarged, quickened, and improved ; wherever the intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; wherever these two signs concur, and they often do so, notwithstanding the gravest imperfections in the social system, there man proclaims and applauds civilization.
Side 58 - We find these societies very differently organized ; founded upon principles totally opposite ; inspiring men with sentiments altogether different. We find the love of the most absolute independence by the side of the most devoted submission ; military patronage by the side of ecclesiastical domination ; spiritual power and temporal power everywhere together ; the canons of the church, the learned legislation of the Romans, the almost unwritten customs of the barbarians ; everywhere a mixture or...
Side 267 - ... papists, who said, it was plain, that the reformers were only against burning, when they were in fear of it themselves.
Side 228 - European society into one social body, must have been much less active and effective in Germany than in any other nation. I have now run over all the great attempts at political organization which were made in Europe, down to the end of the fourteenth or beginning of the fifteenth century.
Side 205 - ... seemed on the point of being established. Thus, from the middle of the eighth to the middle of the ninth century, the diversity of the three kinds of monarchy became manifested by events important, closely connected, and clear.
Side 15 - BEING called upon to give a course of lectures, and having considered what subject would be most agreeable and convenient to fill up the short space allowed us from now to the close of the year, it has occurred to me that a general sketch of the History of Modern Europe, considered more especially with regard to the progress of civilization — that a general survey of the history of European civilization, of its origin, its progress, its end, its character, would be the most profitable subject upon...
Side 30 - Human societies are born, live, and die, upon the earth; there they accomplish their destinies. But they contain not the whole man.
Side 134 - ... to restrain it by subjecting it to a public and regular procedure. The text of the law deserves citation : "If no malefactor or accomplice in a crime should go unpunished, with how much more reason should we condemn those who have committed homicide lightly and...

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