...infamous life juftly drew this proverhial faying upon him in after times: " That he crept into the Papacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog." Vid. Tho. Walfingham. Hift. Angliae; Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, fclc. 1603, p. 62. See more, Howel's...

...et benejicio, to deliver it to the •king. It was said of this pope, that he crept into the papacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. V. 12*9-50. So cardinals, they say, do grope At tit" other end the new-made Pope."] This relates to...

...i.ot a protector, but a plague to his country, we may say, as onee was said of a great tyrant, that he came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. " For the transgression of a land, such are the princes •hereof." IN this chapter we have an account...

...infamous Kfe justly drew this proverbial saying upon him, in after times: That he crept into the Pa* pacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. Vut. The. lf'n<singhum. Hist. Anflif. Camdtni jiaglica. Kvrmanica, Ac. 1603. p. 62. (See more, Hovel'...

...reign, in the interval between the publication of the first and present edition. crept into the Papacy like a Fox, ruled like a Lion, and died like a Dog ! Intravit ut Vulpes, regnavit ut Leo, mortuus est ut Cam's — and whose own ideas of that Holiness...

...assiduously strengthening their alliances. Pope Boniface who, as was said, "got into the pontificate like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," was closely connected with his bankers the Spini, and other mouied men of Florence friends of Donati,...

...lust for gold. The sins of Boniface the Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice. We may illustrate his craft and avarice by an anecdote. In the...

...lust for gold. The sins of Boniface the Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice. We may illustrate his craft and avarice by an anecdote. In the...

...sacraments, insulted his remains, and exclaimed, as they had done of Boniface VIII., " that he had crept in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog." Sic trausit gloria mundi ! 3 Two of the most celebrated of his works represent Leo (I.) averting the...

...his contemporaries upon Boniface, was accepted and believed of him, without contradiction, that he " came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog ;" and a brief review of the chief events of his history will fully bear out the justice of this conclusion,...