The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman [1802-1865], Volume 1

Front Cover
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1897 - 1235 pages
 

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 211 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 548 - The honour paid to saints, the claim of infallibility for the church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the language in which it is written, the recommendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and absolution...
Page 366 - Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.
Page 547 - I agree with you in considering ' the late aggression of the pope upon our Protestantism" as ' insolent and insidious,' and I therefore feel as indignant as you can do upon the subject. " I not only promoted to the utmost of my power the claims of...
Page 548 - What then is the danger to be apprehended from a foreign prince of no great power, compared to the danger within the gates from the unworthy sons of the Church of England herself?

Bibliographic information