 ... in the annals of Christianity since the Apostolic age. When now and then in the course of the centuries God's providence brings such a life into this world, the memory of it must be cherished by mankind as one of its...  Spain in the West - Page 641919Full view - About this book
 | John Fiske - America - 1892 - 680 pages
...sight was not dim nor his natural force abated. In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | Cuba - Constitutional law - 1897 - 178 pages
...philosopher, John Fiske, this glowing tribute: " In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | Associated Spanish and Cuban Press - Constitutional history - 1897 - 194 pages
...philosopher, John Fiske, this glowing tribute: " In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Latin America - 1899 - 518 pages
...for a Wilberforce, a Garrison, and a Lincoln. ... In contemplating such a life as that of Las Oasas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most sublime and beautiful in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | Louis Anthony Dutto - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 610 pages
...tribute to his memory is by a non-Catholic author. "In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is, in some respects, the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity,... | |
 | 1904 - 448 pages
...life, and allow Mr. Fiske to write the last words : "In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverential awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - Consciousness - 1905 - 352 pages
...natural force abated " [89 : 481]. Fiske concludes : In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | 1905 - 712 pages
...Fiske who in his "Discovery of America" says that "in contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in awe before a figure which is, in some respects, the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1908 - 1178 pages
...of his vocation. The historian concludes thus : " In contemplating such a life as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most sublime and beautiful in the annals of Christianity since... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - South America - 1910 - 512 pages
...op. cit, Tom. I, pp. 234, 235. 3 "In contemplating such a life," writes Fiske, "as that of Las Casas, all words of eulogy seem weak and frivolous. The historian can only bow in reverent awe before a figure which is in some respects the most beautiful and sublime in the annals of Christianity since... | |
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