 | Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 halaman
...infamous life juftly drew this proverhial faying upon him in after times: " That he crept into the Papacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog." Vid. Tho. Walfingham. Hift. Angliae; Camdeni Anglica, Normanica, fclc. 1603, p. 62. See more, Howel's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 halaman
...et benejicio, to deliver it to the •king. It was said of this pope, that he crept into the papacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. V. 12*9-50. So cardinals, they say, do grope At tit" other end the new-made Pope."] This relates to... | |
 | John Allen - 1816 - 726 halaman
...i.ot a protector, but a plague to his country, we may say, as onee was said of a great tyrant, that he came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. " For the transgression of a land, such are the princes •hereof." IN this chapter we have an account... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 halaman
...infamous Kfe justly drew this proverbial saying upon him, in after times: That he crept into the Pa* pacy like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. Vut. The. lf'n<singhum. Hist. Anflif. Camdtni jiaglica. Kvrmanica, Ac. 1603. p. 62. (See more, Hovel'... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 444 halaman
...reign, in the interval between the publication of the first and present edition. crept into the Papacy like a Fox, ruled like a Lion, and died like a Dog ! Intravit ut Vulpes, regnavit ut Leo, mortuus est ut Cam's — and whose own ideas of that Holiness... | |
 | Henry Edward Napier - 1846 - 688 halaman
...assiduously strengthening their alliances. Pope Boniface who, as was said, "got into the pontificate like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," was closely connected with his bankers the Spini, and other mouied men of Florence friends of Donati,... | |
 | Frederick Somner Merryweather - 1850 - 182 halaman
...lust for gold. The sins of Boniface the Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice. We may illustrate his craft and avarice by an anecdote. In the... | |
 | F. Somner MERRYWEATHER - 1850 - 192 halaman
...lust for gold. The sins of Boniface the Eighth, of whom it was said that " he crept into the popedom like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog," were principally the sins of avarice. We may illustrate his craft and avarice by an anecdote. In the... | |
 | George Augustus F. Wilks - 1851 - 414 halaman
...sacraments, insulted his remains, and exclaimed, as they had done of Boniface VIII., " that he had crept in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog." Sic trausit gloria mundi ! 3 Two of the most celebrated of his works represent Leo (I.) averting the... | |
 | 1857 - 520 halaman
...his contemporaries upon Boniface, was accepted and believed of him, without contradiction, that he " came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog ;" and a brief review of the chief events of his history will fully bear out the justice of this conclusion,... | |
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VIII., who, in the popular phrase of the time, came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. 
