History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages, Bind 1

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Side 94 - Distichon aufgeschrieben : quod duce te mundus surrexit in astra triumphans hanc Constantinus Victor tibi condidit aulam.
Side 174 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
Side 393 - Roma nobilis, orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium excellentissima, Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea, Albis et virginum liliis candida: Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia Te benedicimus, salve per saecula. Petre, tu praepotens caelorum claviger, Vota precantium exaudi jugiter! Cum bis sex tribuum sederis arbiter, Factus placabilis judica leniter, Teque precantibus nunc temporaliter Ferto suffragia misericorditer! O Paule, suscipe nostra peccamina!
Side 15 - ... been much brought out of the Bible that was never in it. Many passages of Scripture are not turned to all the purposes they are intended to serve, and some have been turned to purposes which they are neither calculated nor intended to serve. The passage before us — like the famous passage, "Thou art Peter, and on this rock will I build my church...
Side 292 - The later descendants of these plunderers looked with astonishment, towards the end of the Middle Ages, at the holes in the walls of the ruins, and, in the audacity of ignorance, set them down to the score of the very Goths who had sought to preserve the splendour of the city. A hundred passages in the rescripts of the Gothic King testify to his sincere respect for Rome, " the city which is indifferent to none, since she is foreign to none ; the fruitful mother of eloquence, the spacious temple of...
Side 323 - not even the wisest and most humane of princes, if he be an alien in race, in customs and religion, can ever win the hearts of the people.' He had read De Tocqueville, and from the pages of an author whose habit of thought must have been most congenial to him, he drew the conclusion that ' it was the increased prosperity and enlightenment of the French people which produced the grand crash.' He therefore thought that
Side 164 - Who could believe that Rome, which was built of the spoils of the whole earth, would fall, that the city could, at the same time, be the cradle and grave of her people, that all the coasts of Asia, Egypt and Africa should be filled with the slaves and maidens of Rome ? that holy Bethlehem should daily receive as beggars, men and women who formerly were conspicuous for their wealth and luxury...
Side 399 - Cum peritura Getae posuissent castra sub urbe, Moverunt sanctis bella nefanda prius, Istaque sacrilego verterunt corde sepulcra Martyribus quondam rite sacrata piis . . . 2 The sub-deacon Arator, celebrated as a poet, at this time in the besieged city, begins his Ep. ad Vigilium thus : — Moenibus undosis bellorum incendia cernens, Pars ego tunc populi tela paventis eram Publica libertas, Vigili, sanctissime papa, Advenis incluso solvere vincla gregi.
Side 392 - Cuius materiae nichil est frivolum: Archos te protegat, qui Stellas et polum Fecit et maria condidit et solum. Furis ingenio non sentias dolum: Cloto te diligat, quae baiulat colum.
Side 43 - ... the Temple of the City, the Forum of Peace, the theatre of Pompey, the Odeum, the Stadium, and amongst these the other adornments of the Eternal City. But when he came to the Forum of Trajan, a construction unique under the...

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