History of Liberty ...

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Little, Brown, 1853
 

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Seite 277 - ... overrate, I do not overrate, the progress of these new States in the great work of establishing a well-secured popular liberty. I know that to be a great attainment, and I know they are but pupils in the school. But, thank God, they are in the school. They are called to meet difficulties, such as neither we nor our fathers encountered. For these, we ought to make large allowances. What have we ever known like the colonial vassalage of these States?
Seite 148 - the meekest of men, thus friendly and mildly addressed himself to Paulinus : "Forasmuch as the Lord hath committed to me the care of these sheep, and thou hast received the care of others, and all the sheep agree in one common faith, let us join our flocks, my friend, and dispute no longer about primacy and government, but let us feed the sheep in common, and bestow a common care upon them.
Seite 36 - So therefore shalt thou do as the Lord has appointed, and shalt give to the priest what things are due to him, the first-fruits of thy floor, and of thy wine-press, and sin-offerings, as to the mediator between God and such as stand in need of purgation and forgiveness. For it is thy duty to give, and his to administer, as being the administrator and disposer of ecclesiastical affairs. Yet shalt thou not call thy bishop to account, nor watch his administration, how he does it, when, or to whom, or...
Seite 203 - Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs lay hid, (whom Thou hadst in Thy secret treasury stored uncorrupted so many years,) whence Thou mightest seasonably produce them to repress the fury of a woman, but an Empress. For when they were discovered and dug up, and with due honour translated to the Ambrosian Basilica, not only they who were vexed with unclean spirits...
Seite 190 - Nor did he know the tides of my feelings, or the abyss of my danger. For I could not ask of him, what I would as I would, being shut out both from his ear and speech by multitudes of busy people, whose weaknesses he served. With whom when he was not taken up, (which was but a little time,) he was either refreshing his body with the sustenance absolutely necessary, or his mind with reading.
Seite 36 - The bishop, he is the minister of the word, the keeper of knowledge, the mediator between God and you in the several parts of your divine worship. He is the teacher of piety; and, next after God, he is your father, who has begotten you again to the adoption of sons by water and the Spirit. He is...
Seite 204 - Which when he had done, and put to his eyes, they were forthwith opened. Thence did the fame spread, thence Thy praises glowed, shone ; thence the mind of that enemy, though not turned to the soundness of believing, was yet turned back from her fury of persecuting. Thanks to Thee, O my God.
Seite 131 - Younger than all these was Joannes, to whom the epithet of Chrysostomus, that is, the Goldenmouthed, was applied in after years. To his mother, Anthusa, the widow of an imperial general, Chrysostom owed the tenderest care, and to her he returned the sincerest affection. But as he grew up at Antioch, the passion for seclusion, to which many of his contemporaries yielded, seized upon him, the more strongly because his nearest friend had determined upon withdrawing from the world.
Seite 294 - Kebir or Great Roman. THE MONK PELAGIUS. Pelagius, the Briton, was an old man when he repaired to Rome. Rest, even though it came through subjection, seemed more congenial to his years than any independence involving him in conflict. But he was young enough to resolve upon the attempt to change the views which weighed him down. In the midst of prelates and preachers maintaining the contrary at Rome, the monk from Britain upheld the power of the individual to save himself from sin and to perfect himself...
Seite 181 - The plea of Libanius in favor of preserving the Heathen shrines illustrates at once the helplessness of their worshippers and the oppressiveness of their Christian sovereigns. He asks that the temples should be maintained for the purpose not of honoring the Heathen deities, but of decorating the imperial cities. " I think tribute," he adds, " to be of importance to the treasury.

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