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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
\ teleuth\sasin, . . . ai= tw=n e)kei= kakw=n a)polu/ousin h(ma=s mn qu/sanras de\ deina\ perime/nei. Plato, Republic, book II. ch. VII. e)kei= is not adequately rendered by hell. Jowett's Plato, II. 186. The method practised on a small scale by vagabond prophets in Athens was formed by the papal see into a system for the world; and it filled its treasury by an organized traffic in indulgences and promises of pardon here and beyond the grave. In a decretal of the ninth of November, 1518, Pope Leo the Tenth affirmed his power as the successor of St. Peter and the vicar of Christ to remit the sins alike of the living and of the dead. Decretal of 9 Nov., 1518, on remission of suins. In German in Walch's Luther's Werke, XV 757, et seq. All absolute power brings its holders, first or last, to perdition: absolute power over mind, conquered from the emperor and continued for centuries, at last ruined, and could not but ruin, the moral and in- Chap. II.} tellectual faculties of th