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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch,X,
Hujus pacificis debemus moribus omnes
Quod veluti patriis regionibus utitur hospes
Quod sedem mutare licet; quod cernere Thulen
Lusus, et horrendos quondam penetrare recessus.., ,
Quod cuncti gens una sumus.
Claudian IP Cons: Stilick: lib. m.
Rome in thus civilizing and polishing mankind,
had prepared them for the reception of that divine
religion, which alone can give to human nature
its full anti adequate perfection ·, and she com-
pleted her godlike work, when influenced by her
instructions and example Europe embraced Chris-
tianity. Thus she became the metropolis of the
world, by a new and more venerable title, and
assumed, in a most august sense, the appellation
of the “ Holy City,” the “ Light of Nations,”
the “■ Parent of Mankind.” * When in the course
of the two succeeding ages, she was stript of her
imperial honors; when her provinces were in-
vaded, and all the glorious scene of cultivation,
*■ A classical bishop of the fifth century, who endeavoured
to communicate the charms of poetry to the metaphysical
discussions of a refined theology, saw this new empire then
gradually rising on the increasing ruins of the old, and ex-
pressed its extent and greatness in language not inelegant.
Sedes Roma Petri, quae Pastoralis honoris
Facta caput Mundo, quicquid non possidet armis,
Religione tenet. St. Prosper.,
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch,X,
Hujus pacificis debemus moribus omnes
Quod veluti patriis regionibus utitur hospes
Quod sedem mutare licet; quod cernere Thulen
Lusus, et horrendos quondam penetrare recessus.., ,
Quod cuncti gens una sumus.
Claudian IP Cons: Stilick: lib. m.
Rome in thus civilizing and polishing mankind,
had prepared them for the reception of that divine
religion, which alone can give to human nature
its full anti adequate perfection ·, and she com-
pleted her godlike work, when influenced by her
instructions and example Europe embraced Chris-
tianity. Thus she became the metropolis of the
world, by a new and more venerable title, and
assumed, in a most august sense, the appellation
of the “ Holy City,” the “ Light of Nations,”
the “■ Parent of Mankind.” * When in the course
of the two succeeding ages, she was stript of her
imperial honors; when her provinces were in-
vaded, and all the glorious scene of cultivation,
*■ A classical bishop of the fifth century, who endeavoured
to communicate the charms of poetry to the metaphysical
discussions of a refined theology, saw this new empire then
gradually rising on the increasing ruins of the old, and ex-
pressed its extent and greatness in language not inelegant.
Sedes Roma Petri, quae Pastoralis honoris
Facta caput Mundo, quicquid non possidet armis,
Religione tenet. St. Prosper.,