 | 1905 - 572 pàgines
...kings," and in Hobbes' day the problem was still Church and State. Not the same great Church, "no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof," but "every man, nay, every boy and woman" who "thought they spoke with God Almighty and understood... | |
 | 1892 - 586 pàgines
...worship of effectiveness. Hobbes, when he said * that the Church of the Middle Ages was essentially " the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." And, of course, we must recognize also — especially in Protestant Christianity — the far-reaching... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 672 pàgines
...Catholic, and some poets. But soon afterwards the words of Hobbes may be transferred to Latin : it is 'the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.' The works of Leibnitz are in three languages. Latin is there, but French is paramount, and philosophical... | |
 | Grant Gilmore - 1977 - 172 pàgines
...September 23, 1902, in 1 Holmes-Pollock Letters 103, 106 (Howe ed. 1961). CHA 1. "The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof." Hobbes, Leviathan Part IV, at 47 (1651). 2. On the survival of the Langdellian spirit, see text at... | |
 | Martin A. Bertman, Michel Malherbe - 1989 - 256 pàgines
...originall of this great Ecclesiastiall 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 : (XLVII,21) Through his disclosure of how the Papacy has been successful in establishing its feigned... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - 304 pàgines
...that great but elusive scholar in some respects. Again, his famous characterization of the papacy as "the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof," * like his interpretation of the Cluniac campaign for clerical celibacy,0 could only have come from... | |
 | Richard James Blackburn - 1990 - 238 pàgines
...of Europe through the Dark and Middle Ages; the papacy, in Hobbes's celebrated phrase, 'was no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof'.17 The mode of magical security may either correspond successfully to the needs of the modes... | |
 | Mark Turner - 1994 - 316 pàgines
...form "Ignorance is the tap root of poverty."] xrz, ASPECT, AND SPECIFICATION The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. (Hobbes) xrz AND WEIRD SPECIFICATION A film is a petrified fountain of thought. (Jean Cocteau) ASPECT... | |
 | James D. Tracy - 1997 - 518 pàgines
...historical one: the Roman heritage. Thomas Hobbes, for example, wrote that "the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."26 This is the historical aspect, but Hobbes also recognized the functional aspect the need... | |
 | A. P. Martinich - 2003 - 454 pàgines
...Catholic church and the kingdom of fairies of English folk mythology. He says 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" (EW, 3:698). 10 Just as... | |
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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... 
