...Professor Ranke has thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it. There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy...Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the...

...Professor Ranke has thrown far more light than any other person who has written on it. There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy...Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the...

...and skilful human policy of the method of organization of the Roman Catholic Church. He says : — "The history of that Church joins together the two...when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but...

...matter. An eloquent historian has declared that " there is not, and there never was on this earth, any work of human policy so well deserving of examination...together the two great ages of human civilization. . . . The Church of Rome saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical...

...splendid is the panorama with which his Essay on Von Ranke is opened. Of the Church of Rome he says : " No other institution is left standing which carries...bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest of royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. ...Nor do...

...296 THE DOME OF ST. PETERS FROM THE JANlCULAN CHAPTER IX The Catholic Reaction ' There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy...Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution i» left standing which carries the mind back to the times when...

...Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left standing which carries...camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. . . . And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in...

...OF ROME From the Essay on Ranke's < History of the Popes ' THERE is not, and there never was on the earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of...smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camclopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday,...

...excluding them from office. — Edinburgh Review, April, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. There is not, and there never was, on this earth a work of human policy...bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace...

...translated Ranke's Reformation in Germany, Raumer's England in 1835, Characteristics of Goethe, etc. human policy so well deserving of examination as the...when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.1 The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme...