Rome, Its Ecclesiastical and Social Life: With a Preface by the Editor

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T.C. Newby, publisher, 1845 - 307 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 88 - Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed.
Pàgina 300 - ... and as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead ? he is not here, but is risen.
Pàgina 21 - Rome, it passed into a proverb, that ' the blood of the martyrs became the seed of the Church.' And let the Calcutta Baboos rest assured, that the vital principle involved in this proverb has lost nothing of its intrinsic efficacy or subduing power. The first drop of missionary blood...
Pàgina iii - Editor, in his statement of the " two reasons" which have chiefly influenced him in presenting it to the public : "The work appears to him well calculated to furnish useful materials of observation and topics of inquiry to those who visit the eternal city, and to serve in some measure as a hand-book to numerous travellers, who too often confine their inquiries and remarks to mere outward things, and overlook points which are of vastly greater importance to the present condition of society.
Pàgina 171 - Lazarus, or the feeding of the multitude with the five loaves and the two fishes, without stopping to explain that I do not believe that this is literal history.
Pàgina 135 - Some of the fraternities employ the whole of their income on the celebration of masses and of ecclesiastical ceremonies and pomp, whilst others appropriate, yearly, some part of the proceeds of their endowments to the support and assistance of young women who marry, and of others who wish to become nuns.
Pàgina 98 - All this clearly enough denotes that the people of the holy city are thinking far more of their deliverance from the meagre diet of Lent and of their confession accomplished, than of redemption from sin through the sufferings of the Lord.
Pàgina 98 - Lent, is handed out of the window, maltreated, and destroyed. In Rome the streets during the whole morning are thronged — shots of...
Pàgina 52 - Protestant favourable to Catholicism is propagated in Rome, but there is at the same time no feeling or desire in any case to do justice to Protestantism itself.
Pàgina 186 - At three o'clock we found two fathers sitting beside one another upon an open tribune or scaffold. One played the character of a learned instructor — the other of a simple and ignorant objector, and the affair was carried on in a species of dialogue — the simple one throwing in occasional objections, remarks, and witticisms.

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