...with an observation in which few persons will be unwilling to concur: — " There is not," says he, "and there never was, on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman-catholic church." Then follows a proposition, to which, without the need of a word of illustration,...

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...words, although often cited, are here so peculiarly appropriate, that we cannot withhold them. — " There is not, and there never was, on this earth, a work so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together...

...on Ranke's History of the Papacy, another circumstance which entitles it to a place in this chapter. "There is not, and there. never was, on this earth, a work so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that church joins together...

...strong temptations, have left to posterity a doubtful and chequered fame. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. There is not, and there never was, on this earth,...of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. No other institution is left Standing which carries the mind back to the times...

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...years after its foundation, to hear witness to its antiquity, and to anticipate its duration : — " There is not, and there never was, on this earth a...well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Chureh. The history of that chureh joins together the two greatest ages of Roman civilization. No other...

...will be best stated in the words of Mr. Macaulay, in his article on Ranke, in the Edinburgh Review : " There is not, and there never was, on this earth,...of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilisation. Xo other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times...