Civitate

Instead, says Augustine, its purpose is much more limited: "So also the earthly city ... aims at an earthly peace, and it limits the harmonious agreement of its citizens ... to the establishment of a kind of compromise between human wills about the things relevant to mortal life" De Civitate Dei, Book XIX chapter 17.

Archive 2009-03-01 Burke's Corner 2009

Your grandfather was not like other aristocratic collectors, who satisfied themselves with a deluxe editions of Augustine's Civitate Dei, or the Works of Cervantes, or other commonplace books that turn up again and again in the marketplace.

Hôtel Lambert Young Geoffrion 2009

Instead, says Augustine, its purpose is much more limited: "So also the earthly city ... aims at an earthly peace, and it limits the harmonious agreement of its citizens ... to the establishment of a kind of compromise between human wills about the things relevant to mortal life" De Civitate Dei, Book XIX chapter 17.

Jeffrey Donaldson or Saint Augustine? Burke's Corner 2009

Your grandfather was not like other aristocratic collectors, who satisfied themselves with a deluxe editions of Augustine's Civitate Dei, or the Works of Cervantes, or other commonplace books that turn up again and again in the marketplace.

Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

[907] Pliny, some men were turned into wolves in his time, and from wolves to men again: and to that fable of Pausanias, of a man that was ten years a wolf, and afterwards turned to his former shape: to [908] Ovid's tale of Lycaon, &c. He that is desirous to hear of this disease, or more examples, let him read Austin in his 18th book de Civitate Dei, cap.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

De Civitate Dei was the basis for relating property ownership and secular justice to divine authority.

John Wyclif's Political Philosophy Lahey, Stephen 2006

He seems however to have been drawn into the remark by a reminiscence of what Augustine says in his De Civitate Dei, bk. xii., ch. xiii.

On Human Nature 2004

The Normans had tested the couched lance in southern Italy well before the Conquest, most dramatically in their defeat of the Suabian elite of the papal army with its two-handed swords at Civitate in 1053.

Lust for Glory Bloch, R. Howard 2003

It is generally agreed that at Civitate a Norman army consisting chiefly of about three thousand cavalrymen defeated a larger papal army composed mostly of infantry.

Lust for Glory Bloch, R. Howard 2003

Bacon dreamed of New Atlantis, Sir Thomas More saw the fair walls of Utopia rising in the future, Plato defined the boundaries of the ideal Republic, Augustine wrote of the glories of the _Civitate

The Ascent of the Soul Amory H. Bradford