 | 1882 - 472 pàgines
...originall of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof; for so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen pswer. " — HOBBES, Leviathan.... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1915 - 814 pàgines
...rather to be accepted as humor. Wit again is to be discovered in Hobbes's definition of the papacy as "the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. " It is wit again which inspired Douglas Jerrold's definition of dogmatism as "puppyism come to maturity"... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1888 - 424 pàgines
...empire the world has ever known. For the Roman Pontificate, to use the famous saying of Hobbes, was but the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. CHAPTER VI THE EGYPTIAN OBELISKS AMONG the first objects that arrest the attention and powerfully excite... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pàgines
...original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the "ghost" of the deceased " Roman empire," sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power. The " language"... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1889 - 1080 pàgines
...bishop was the only surviving heir of this imperial past, or, in the well-known dictum of Hobbes, " the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereofc" Again, the very remoteness of Rome from the imperial conrt was favorable to the development... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 576 pàgines
...of the Popes, henceforward to represent to the eyes of the world the vanished glory of the Empire, ' the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.' ' The capture of Rome by Alaric was one of the great steps by which the Pope arose to his plenitude... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 pàgines
...original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." — HOBBES, Leviathan. " If Hildebrand was the Julius, Innocent was the Augustus, of the Papal Empire."—... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1900 - 380 pàgines
...Museum, and Pius IX., the handsome staircase leading to the court of Bramante. 'What is the Papacy but the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof?' — tlobbes. l See Kio. The Vatican is the largest palace in the world : its length is 1151 English... | |
 | Robert Matteson Johnston - 1901 - 402 pàgines
...original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is none other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." In any endeavour to relate some part of the history of modern Rome, be the period chosen long or short,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1901 - 416 pàgines
...well-known expression of Hobbes, of which the truth up to a certain point will not be disputed by any, was "the ghost of the deceased Roman empire " sitting crowned upon the grave thereof1." In saying thus much I have slightly outstepped the limits of the apostolic age ; because,... | |
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... fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman... 
