The Revival of the French Emperorship Anticipated from the Necessity of Prophecy

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Bosworth, 1853 - 74 páginas
 

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Página 48 - The beast that thou sawest was, and is not ; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Página 22 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Página 10 - And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death ; and his deadly wound was healed : and all the world wondered after the beast.
Página 15 - But the prudent Zeno soon deserted the hopeless cause of his abdicated colleague. His vanity was gratified by the title of sole emperor and by the statues erected to his honour in the several quarters of Rome ; he entertained a friendly, though ambiguous, correspondence with the patrician Odoacer ; and he gratefully accepted the Imperial ensigns, the sacred ornaments of the throne and palace, which the Barbarian was not unwilling to remove from the sight of the...
Página 14 - disclaim the necessity, or even the wish, of continuing any longer the Imperial succession in Italy; since, in their opinion, the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the East and the West. In their own name, and in the name of the people, they consent that the seat of universal empire shall be transferred from Rome to Constantinople...
Página 10 - And here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Página 31 - Its limits118 were enlarged on every side by his son, the first and greatest of the Othos. A portion of Gaul, to the west of the Rhine, along the banks of the Meuse and the Moselle, was assigned to the Germans, by whose blood and language it has been tinged since the time of Caesar and Tacitus. Between the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Alps, the successors of Otho acquired a vain supremacy over the broken kingdoms of Burgundy and Aries. In the North, Christianity was propagated by...
Página 14 - ... had given laws to the world. The republic (they repeat that name without a blush,) might safely confide in the civil and military virtues of Odoacer ; and they humbly request that the emperor would invest him with the title of patrician, and the administration of the diocese of Italy.
Página 10 - Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The Seven Heads are Seven Mountains, where the Woman sitteth upon them. Also they are Seven Kings. The Five have fallen: the One is: the Other hath not yet come / and, when he shall have come, he must remain only a little time. And...
Página 55 - Bonaparte, with the succession in its direct deseendants natural and legitimate, or adopted ; and gives him the right to regulate the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, as provided for by the senatus consulturn of the 7th day of November, 1852.

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