The Political Writings of St. AugustineRegnery Gateway, 1962 - 358 páginas This collection, taken from the works of St. Augustine, has been arranged so as to give the reader an organized, comprehensive view of the great African saint's political ideas. These, no less than his ideas on sin, grace and predestination, have long been an object of study and controversy. |
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... wars , more distressing , by the avowal of their own historians , than any foreign wars , and which were pronounced to be not merely calamitous , but absolutely ruinous to the republic , began long before the coming of Christ , and gave ...
... wars , more distressing , by the avowal of their own historians , than any foreign wars , and which were pronounced to be not merely calamitous , but absolutely ruinous to the republic , began long before the coming of Christ , and gave ...
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... wars to a speedy termination , the Samnite war was protracted for nearly fifty years ; and in this war the Romans ... wars , this war also would be speedily terminated . Let them , therefore , who have read history recollect what long ...
... wars to a speedy termination , the Samnite war was protracted for nearly fifty years ; and in this war the Romans ... wars , this war also would be speedily terminated . Let them , therefore , who have read history recollect what long ...
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... wars have been and are waged , yet , supposing there were no such nations , the very extent of the empire itself has produced wars of a more obnoxious description — social and civil wars - and with these the whole race has been agitated ...
... wars have been and are waged , yet , supposing there were no such nations , the very extent of the empire itself has produced wars of a more obnoxious description — social and civil wars - and with these the whole race has been agitated ...
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THE RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS | 44 |
Pagan Rome | 57 |
SECURING THE PEACE OF BABYLON | 118 |
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The Political Writings of St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine,Dino Bigongiari Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
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