 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 pàgines
...of God, and he has built up his power out of the ruins of heathen Rome. For "the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." Taken as a whole, Hobbes's Leviathan has two characteristics which stamp it with the mark of genius.... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 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. Leviathan, chap, xlvii. IZAAK WALTON 1593-1683 THE BIRDS NAY more, the very birds of the air, those... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1920 - 544 pàgines
...great ecclesiastical dominion," thought Hobbes, " he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." As the Roman Church occupied the place of the Roman Empire, so the Lutheran Church occupied the place... | |
 | William George De Burgh - 1924 - 494 pàgines
...Hobbes of Malmesbury, writing in the days of the Puritan revolution, spoke of the papacy as "no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." 1 So at least it seemed to the Protestant philosopher and arch-enemy of ecclesiastical dominion. In... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1925 - 296 pàgines
...State for any independent jurisdiction, such as that claimed by the Roman Church. The Papacy is only the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. But the government, though absolute, was not to be inquisitive or tyrannical. There should be no more... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1926 - 768 pàgines
...legal power but as having an unique moral authority. If the Papacy was, as Hobbes called it, ' no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof,' it was a living ghost and not a phantasm. Since the governing power of the Empire had perished in the... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 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." The origins of government are to be found in force, the — social contract, or patriarchal authority,... | |
 | Friedrich Freiherr von Hügel - 1926 - 308 pàgines
...forgo. Yet even Dante is not free from the third obscuration. Hobbes pictures the Papacy as "no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." Assuredly, the substance of the Papacy is no such thing. But a certain survival of that Pagan Empire... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - 1926 - 300 pàgines
...State for any independent jurisdiction, such as that claimed by the Roman Church. The Papacy is only the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. But the government, though absolute, was not to be inquisitive or tyrannical. There should be no more... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pàgines
...Religion in the World are little more than so many spiritual Monopolies. Ibid. THE Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Hobbes, 386. DEFOE says that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready... | |
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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... 
