The Roman Question

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D. Appleton, 1859 - 219 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 98 - ... milk. Almost as soon as they could walk, they assumed the tiocrie, or mocassins of untanned leather, with which they learned to run fearlessly along the edge of the giddiest mountain precipices. When they had acquired the art of pursuing and escaping, of taking without being taken, the knowledge of the value of the different coins, the arithmetic of the distribution of booty, and the principles of the rights of nations as they are practised among the Apaches or the Comanches, their education...
Pàgina 7 - The caustic wit of the book may be conjectured from its first sentence : " The Roman Catholic Church, which I sincerely respect, consists of one hundred and thirty-nine millions of individuals, without counting little Mortara." Trollope, Adolphus.— The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth. 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1877. An attempt to portray simply the outer life of Pope Pius IX. The book is a spirited piece of writing ; but it is scarcely entitled to very high rank either as history or as biography.

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