The Century of Columbus

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Catholic Summer School Press, 1914 - 577 עמודים
 

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עמוד 508 - This law was made by Utopus, not only for preserving the public peace, which he saw suffered much by daily contentions and irreconcilable heats, but because he thought the interest of religion itself required it. He...
עמוד 518 - ... and some they sent over sea to " the bookbinders, not in small number, but at " times whole ships full, to the wondering of the
עמוד 105 - Not until the second half of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth was research done into metals and their qualities, which investigations had a profound effect upon metal production.
עמוד 457 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
עמוד 514 - Utopians; but they dividing the day and night into twenty-four hours, appoint six of these for work; three of which are before dinner; and three after. They then sup, and at eight o'clock, counting from noon, go to bed and sleep eight hours. The rest of their time besides that taken up in work, eating and sleeping, is left to every man's discretion; yet they are not to abuse that interval to luxury and idleness, but must employ it in some proper exercise according to their various inclinations, which...
עמוד 22 - Prince your father and of the illustrious house of Sforza. And if any of the...
עמוד 367 - He lived to give a third or fourth edition of it ; and after having passed his hundredth year, died without pain or agony, and like one who falls asleep. The treatise I mention has been taken notice of by several eminent authors, and is written with such a spirit of cheerfulness, religion, and good sense, as are the natural concomitants of temperance and sobriety.
עמוד 353 - the object of chemistry is not to make gold, but to prepare medicines," and founded the school of latro-chemistry or Medical Chemistry.
עמוד 509 - ... from looking on such men as fit for human society, or to be citizens of a well-ordered commonwealth; since a man of such principles must needs, as oft as he dares do it, despise all their laws and customs: for there is no doubt to be made that a man who is afraid of nothing but the law, and apprehends nothing after death, will not scruple to break through all the laws of his country, either by fraud or force, when by this means he may satisfy his appetites.
עמוד 508 - ... laws, that no man ought to be punished for his religion. At the first constitution of their government, Utopus having understood that before his coming among them the old inhabitants had been engaged in great quarrels concerning religion, by which they were so divided among themselves, that he found it an easy thing to conquer them, since, instead of uniting their forces against him, every different part)in religion fought by themselves.

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