...communion ; and strictly guarded the spiritual as well ns temporal welfare of his faithful people.27 Never perhaps has the energy and effect of a single...been more remarkably felt than in the sudden, though Iran•ient, reformation of Rome by the tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers was converted to the discipline...

...communion; and strictly guarded the spiritual as well as temporal welfare of his faithful people." Never perhaps has the energy and effect of a single...transient, reformation of Rome by the tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers was converted to the discipline of a camp or convent: patient to hear, swift to redress,...

...welfare of his faithful people.30 Never, perhaps, has the energy and effect of a single mind Freedom been more remarkably felt than in the sudden, though transient, reformation of Borne by the tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers republic*11 wae converted to the discipline of a camp...

...protection, and addressing noblemen as My Lord, or Mio Signore. Things went well enough for a time. 'Never perhaps has the energy and effect of a single...the sudden, though transient, reformation of Rome,' noted Gibbon, who was born a few centuries too soon to witness similar sudden and equally transient...

...confident in the rightness of his cause, and out to change the world. 'Never perhaps,' wrote Gibbon, 'has the energy and effect of a single mind been more remarkably felt.' That sentence could have been written, with equal validity, about Richard Wagner. For a century now...

...the nominal association of the Bishop of Orvietto, ' the pope's vicar, to the office of tribune." ' Never, perhaps, has the energy and effect of a single...transient ' reformation of Rome by the tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers ' was converted to the discipline of a camp or convent ; patient ' to hear, swift...