Rome as it was under paganism and as it became under the popes [by J. Miley].J. Madden, 1843 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alaric altar amidst ancient apostles army baptized barbarians Basilica beasts became beheld Belisarius bishop blessed Stephen blood body Cæsars Capitol captives Charlemagne Christian church clergy consecrated Constantine cross crown crypt death Diocletian disciples Divine Eccl edict empire entire Euseb Eusebius exarch faith father gates Gaul glory gods gold gospel Gothic Goths Gregory hand heaven Hippolytus Hist holy honour human idols imperial Irenæus Italy Jesus Christ judge king kingdom Labarum labours lictors Lombards Lord Lupercalia martyrs Maxentius Maximian monastery monks multitude Muratori nations Orosius pagan palace patrician Pepin persecution Peter plunder pontiff Pope pope Caius priest prince Procopius provinces quæ reign religion Ricimer Roman Rome ruins sacred sacrifice saints says Gibbon scenes senate sent soldiers solemn successors suffered Switbert sword temple things thou Tiber tion tomb torments Totila triumph venerable victory walls
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 294 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
עמוד 339 - I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
עמוד 122 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication : and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
עמוד 65 - For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood ; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.
עמוד 116 - ... occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatics. In the centre of the edifice the arena or stage was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment...
עמוד 114 - Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation ; and the azure gloom Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume...
עמוד 153 - But avarice is an insatiate and universal passion, since the enjoyment of almost every object that can afford pleasure to the different tastes and tempers of mankind may be procured by the possession of wealth. In the pillage of Rome, a just preference was given to gold and jewels, which contain the greatest value in the smallest compass and weight; but after these portable riches had been removed by the more diligent robbers, the palaces of Rome were rudely stripped of their splendid and costly...
עמוד 142 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all...
עמוד 153 - The sideboards of massy plate, and the variegated wardrobes of silk and purple, were irregularly piled in the wagons that always followed the march of a Gothic army. The most exquisite works of art were roughly handled or wantonly destroyed; many a statue was melted for the sake of the precious materials; and many a vase, in the division of the spoil, was shivered into fragments by the stroke of a battle-axe.
עמוד 48 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.