 | Thomas Thomson - 1849 - 444 pages
...an able and successful leader when circumstances called him into the field, his usual maxim was, " When Christ came into the world peace was sung, and when he departed from it peace was bequeathed." James had therefore full time for returning to the internal... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...ever loved peace more than Henry VII. of England, who prefaced all his treaties with the words : " When Christ came into the world, peace was sung ;...when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed." Charles Fox once said : " I wonder whether any one ever was so wise as Thurlow looks ?" Antony Beke,... | |
 | English history - 1851 - 706 pages
...his memorable hospital of the Savoy ; and yet was ho a great alms-giver in secret, which showed that his works in public were dedicated rather to God's glory than his own. Ue j>roi'e»eed always tu lovo and seek peace ; and it was his usual preface in his treatise, that... | |
 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1855 - 474 pages
...into foreign wars, and usually began the terms of any treaty with the following pacific words : — " that, when Christ came into the world, peace was sung...when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed." It would be well if all Christian princes remembered this truth, and governed accordingly. Henry had... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 394 pages
...from his attempts to repress their inclinations for war. The usual preface to all his treaties was, " That when Christ came into the world, peace was sung...when he went out of the world, peace was bequeathed." He had all along two points in view ; one to depress the nobility and clergy, and the other to exalt... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...his memorable hospital of the Savoy : and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret ; which shewed that his works in public were dedicated rather to God's...peace ; and it was his usual preface in his treaties l, that when Christ came into the world peace was sung, and when he went out of the world peace was... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...his memorable hospital of the Savoy : and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret ; which shewed that his works in public were dedicated rather to God's...and seek peace ; and it was his usual preface in his treaties,1 that when Christ came into the world peace was sung, and when he went out of the world peace... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...his memorable hospital of the Savoy ; and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret, which showed that his works in public were dedicated rather to God's...and seek peace ; and it was his usual preface in his treatise, that when Christ came into the world peace was sung, and when he went out of the world peace... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1864 - 546 pages
...from his attempts to repress their inclinations for war. The usual preface to all his treaties was, " That, when Christ came into the world, peace was sung...when he went out of the world, peace was bequeathed." 9. He had all along two points in view ; one to depress the nobility and clergy, and the other to exalt... | |
 | Great Britain - 1865 - 708 pages
...his memorable hospital of the Savoy ; and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret, which showed that his works in public were dedicated rather to God's...and seek peace ; and it was his usual preface in his treatise, that when Christ came into the world peace was sung, and when he went out of the world peace... | |
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He advanced church-men: he was tender in the privilege of sanctuaries, though they wrought him much mischief. He built and endowed many religious foundations, besides his memorable hospital of the Savoy: and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret; which... 
