St. Thomas Aquinas: Papers from the Summer School of Catholic Studies Held at Cambridge, August 4-9, 1924

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W. Heffer & sons, Limited, 1925 - 311 pages
 

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Page 190 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Page 129 - I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in nature, not the God of nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
Page 261 - Matto è chi spera che nostra ragione Possa trascorrer la infinita via Che tiene una sustanzia in tre persone. State contenti umana gente, al quia; Che se possuto aveste veder tutto, Mestier non era partorir Maria; E disiar vedeste sanza frutto Tai, che sarebbe lor disio quetato, Ch'etternalmente è dato lor per lutto.
Page 263 - Quaut' egli ha più di buon vigor terrestro. Alcun tempo il sostenni col mio volto; Mostrando gli occhi giovinetti a lui, Meco il menava in dritta parte volto. Sì tosto come in su la soglia fui . Di mia seconda etade e mutai vita, Questi si tolse a me, e diessi altrui. Quando di carne a spirto era salita, E bellezza e virtù cresciuta m...
Page 190 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 265 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 265 - Nel ciel che più de la sua luce prende fu' io, e vidi cose che ridire né sa né può chi di là su discende; perché appressando sé al suo disire, nostro intelletto si profonda tanto, che dietro la memoria non può ire.
Page 263 - Che si alti vapori hanno a lor piova, Che nostre viste là non van vicine; Questi fu tal nella sua vita nova Virtualmente, ch'ogni abito destro Fatto averebbe in lui mirabil prova.
Page 224 - ... eternal salvation takes precedence of temporal good, and because the good of the many is to be preferred to the good of one. Now if heretics were always received on their return, in order to save their lives and other temporal goods, this might be prejudicial to the salvation of others...
Page 190 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.

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