 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 páginas
...pontifical dignity in 1 194, upon the uncommon event of pop* Celefline V. Alfledius (ays, that " he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." in u$7, hejcanonixed St Lewis king of France; and in 1300, inftituted a jubilee to be htM every 100... | |
 | 1816 - 782 páginas
...the pontifical dignity in 1194, upon the uncommon event of pope Celeitine V. Alftedius fays, Out " he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dug." In 1197, he canonized St Lewis king of France; and in 1300, inftituted a jubilee to be held every... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 564 páginas
...papal chair in 1294, on the uncommon event of the resignation of Celestine V. Alstedius says, " that he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog." In 1297, he canonized St. Lewis k:ng of France ; and in 1300, instituted a jubilee to be held every... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 524 páginas
...the people of the empire, had long been successful, and seemed to be secure. A splendid sinner, who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog, he seemed now to be falling from the zenith of his popularity and power, even within his own dominions.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 páginas
...about the streets. BONIFACE VIII. obtained the pontifical dignity in 1294. Alstedius says that ' he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.' In 1297 he canonised St. Louis king of France; and in 1300 instituted a jubilee to be held every hundred... | |
 | 1830 - 430 páginas
...to the people ; upon which, he flew into a frenzv and d;ed miserably. Of him it was said, ' that he entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.' Pope Urban the Sixth caused one of his cardinal?, who had displeased him, to be slain ; five others... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 páginas
...desperation his head against the wall ; " a magnanimous sinner (say the ancient Chronicles of the times) whe entered like a Fox, reigned like a LION, and died like a Doo." (See his character ably delineated by the masterly pen of Gibbon, in vol. xi. p. 306, Edit. of... | |
 | Samuel Edgar - 1838 - 630 páginas
...knocking his head against the wall l1ke one in desperation. He entered the papacy, it has been said, like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. • John the Twenty-third seems, if possible, to have exceeded all his predecessors in enormity. This... | |
 | Sir Robert Buckley Comyn - 1841 - 592 páginas
...Anquetil, Hist. de France, tom. III. p. 35 — 41. — Gibbon ascribes the saying, that Boniface " entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog," to the chronicles of the times. It is given by Benvenuto da Imola, in his commentary on Dante, as a... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas - 1841 - 388 páginas
...Spanish The people bestowed on him this epitaph : " Here lies one who entered into the pontificate like a fox, reigned like a lion and died like a dog." But two centuries had elapsed since Gregory V. excommunicated Robert ; and now Philip IV., in turn,... | |
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... who entered like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. He was succeeded by Benedict the Eleventh, the mildest of mankind. Yet he excommunicated the impious emissaries of Philip, and devoted the city and people of Anagni by a tremendous... 
