Simon de Montfort: His Life and Work

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Cornish brothers, 1923 - 292 pàgines

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Pàgina 182 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Pàgina 209 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pàgina 209 - And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory...
Pàgina 62 - ... to do so; but still more because by its dispensations, provisions, and collations to the pastoral care, it appoints before the eyes of this sun, men such as I have described, not pastors but destroyers of men; and that it may provide for the livelihood of some one person, hands over to the jaws of the beasts of the field and to eternal death many thousands of souls, for the life of each one of which the Son of God was willing to be condemned to a most shameful death.
Pàgina 224 - Simon addressed his soldiers : " Beloved comrades and followers, we are about to enter upon battle to-day in behalf of the Government of the kingdom, to the honour of God, of the blessed Mary, of all the saints, and of our mother Church, and moreover for the maintenance of our faith. Let us pray to the King of all, that, if what we now undertake pleases Him, He would grant us vigour and help, so that we may do a pleasing service, and overpower the malice of our enemies. Since [HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES—...
Pàgina 222 - King, but opposition to his evil counsellors — "those persons who are not only our enemies, but yours, and those of the whole kingdom." They were admitted into the refectory of the Priory of Cluniac monks, where the King was lodged, offered to make compensation for damages .which the barons...
Pàgina 16 - Of discourses and battles of words he takes no heed: he follows the works of wisdom, and in these finds rest. What others strive to see dimly and blindly, like bats in twilight, he gazes at in the full light of day, because he is a master of experiment. Through experiment he gains knowledge of natural things, medical, chemical, indeed of everything in the heavens or earth.
Pàgina 223 - They shall have no peace whatever, unless they put halters round their necks and surrender themselves for us to hang them up or drag them down, as we please.
Pàgina 15 - II., deposed him from his imperial throne and offered the dignity to Louis's brother Robert, the meek and gentle king replied to the pope in the following words : — Whence is this pride and daring of the pope, which thus disinherits a king who has no superior, nor even an equal, among Christians, — a king not convicted of the crimes laid to his charge ? Even if these crimes were proved, no power could depose him but that of a general council.
Pàgina 151 - And surely he had a right to do what he liked with his own money so long as he disobeyed no law.

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