 | 1838 - 722 pages
...frequently possess no inconsiderable claim upon our attention. Many of the persons whose lives are recorded exercised a paramount influence over the temporal...endured the persecutions to which they were subjected. How much of general history, for instance, do we not learn from the Legends of Dunstan ? Who can undertake... | |
 | 1838 - 732 pages
...frequently possess no inconsiderable claim upon our attention. Many of the persons whose lives are recorded exercised a paramount influence over the temporal...spiritual affairs of the nation ; this influence was not unfrcquently exercised in such a manner as to bring its possessor into violent collision with his sovereign... | |
 | Messager des sciences historiques - 1863 - 560 pages
...exercised a paramount influence over the temporal as wcll as thc spiritual affairs of lhe nation; tins influence was not unfrequently exercised in such a...to bring its possessor into violent collision with lus sovereign; and their historians are fortunately seldom so diffuse as «hen narrating the triumpbs... | |
 | Stewart C.J. - 1845 - 314 pages
...can be derived. Regarded in an historical point of view, the individuals whose biography is recorded possess no inconsiderable claim upon our attention....endured the persecutions to which they were subjected. " Besides furnishing materials for general history, lives of saints abound with much curious information... | |
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... light, and sometimes they are the only source whence information upon points of much moment can be derived. Regarded in an historical point of view, the individuals whose biography is recorded frequently possess no inconsiderable claim upon our attention.... 