virgilius

Updated: June 9, 2025

Virgilius taught the existence of the Antipodes, the Holy See was guided what to do; it did not indeed side with the Irish philosopher, which would have been going out of its place, but it passed over, in a matter not revealed, a philosophical opinion. Time went on; a new state of things, intellectual and social, came in; the Church was girt with temporal power; the preachers of St.

John Henry Newman - The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine: Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin

It was not long before they came through the coppice and told me of the fearful devastation which Satan had made in the village and manse by the permission of all-righteous God. My child had gathered together a few books, which she brought with her, above all, a Virgilius and a Greek Bible.

Wilhelm Meinhold - Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon.

PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS, or more correctly, VERGILIUS MARO, was born in the village or district of Andes, near Mantua, sixteen years after the birth of Catullus, of whom he was a compatriot as well as an admirer.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

Ignorantia, as I said, is your date an' superscription; an' when you die, you ought to go an' engage a stone-cutter to carve you a headstone, an' make him write on it, Hic jacet Ignorantius Redivicus. An' the translation of that is, accordin' to Publius Virgilius Maro 'here lies a quadruped who didn't know the differ atween black an' white."

William Carleton - Going to Maynooth : Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

The two last were in full tide of spirits, and the Baron rallied in his way our hero upon the handsome figure which his new dress displayed to advantage. 'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius:

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley

All the more illustrious sees of Southern Gaul were filled by prelates who had been reared at Lerins; to Arles, for instance, it gave in succession Hilary, Cæsarius, and Virgilius.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy

'I don't believe it! answered Virgilius. 'Well, I'll just get in and show you, said the spirit, and after turning and twisting, and curling himself up, then he lay neatly packed into the hole. Then Virgilius drew the bolt, and, picking the books up under his arm, he left the cave. For the next few weeks Virgilius hardly ate or slept, so busy was he in learning the magic the books contained.

Andrew Lang - The Violet Fairy Book

Indeed I have myself seen as sad sights as Tully-Veolan now is when I served with the Marechal Duke of Berwick. To be sure we may say with Virgilius Maro, Fuimus Troes and there's the end of an auld sang.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 2

I have no more to do with women. What woman is as fair as philosophy, as winsome as wisdom?" Messer Brunetto beamed on him with an admiring smile. "Right, my son, right!" he cried, delighted. "Better Seneca for you than sensuality; Virgilius than venery. When you are as ripe as I, you may trifle awhile if you like with lightness."

Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy - The God of Love

They, however, agreed in the belief that "the fury of the sun, which burns the intermediate zone," rendered it inaccessible to the inhabitants of the world. Plinus, Pomponius Mela, Scipio, Virgilius, Cicero, and Macrobius considered this land as habitable, and the two last mentioned authors held the opinion that it was inhabited by a different race of beings.

Ernest Favenc - The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888