 | Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 страници
...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... | |
 | John Allen - 1816 - 726 страници
...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... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 444 страници
...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... | |
 | Henry Edward Napier - 1846 - 688 страници
...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,... | |
 | F. Somner MERRYWEATHER - 1850 - 192 страници
...have not been less severe in delineating the evils of avarice. " It is," says Brown in his Religio Medici, " not so much a vice as a species of madness."...they answered that they had, and that it was then at Borne in the hands of a certain banker, whom they named. He desired three days to consider the matter,... | |
 | George Augustus F. Wilks - 1851 - 414 страници
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 920 страници
...Philip the Fair, against the object of his furious and unquenchable jealousy, the Pope, who " came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog." Cardinal Wiseman has essayed to restore Boniface VIII. to the respect and admiration of posterity,... | |
 | 1857 - 520 страници
...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,... | |
 | John Parker Lawson - 1866 - 846 страници
...protector, bttt a plague to his country, we may say as was once said of a great tyrant, that he came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. We are here (in the book of Judges) told by what arts Abimelech got into the saddle, and made himself... | |
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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. 
