History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne - BestLightNovel.com
You’re reading novel History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne Volume II Part 24 online at BestLightNovel.com. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit BestLightNovel.com. Use F11 button to read novel in full-screen(PC only). Drop by anytime you want to read free – fast – latest novel. It’s great if you could leave a comment, share your opinion about the new chapters, new novel with others on the internet. We’ll do our best to bring you the finest, latest novel everyday. Enjoy
Newman, Dr., on venial sin, i. 111, and _note_ on pride, ii. 188
Nicodemus, apocryphal gospel of, ii. 221
Nilus, St., deserts his family, ii. 322
Nitria, number of anchorites in the desert of, ii. 105
Nolasco, Peter, his works of mercy, ii. 73.
His partic.i.p.ation in the Albigensian ma.s.sacres, 95
Novatians, their tenets, ii. 102
Numa, legend of his prohibition of idols, i. 166, _note_
Oath, sanct.i.ty of an, among the Romans, i. 168
Obedience, new value placed on it by monachism, ii. 185, 186, 269
Obligation, nature of, i. 64, 65
Ockham, his opinion of the foundation of the moral law, i. 17, and _note_
Odin, his suicide, ii. 53
O'Neale, Shane, his charity, ii. 96
Opinion, influence of character on, i. 171, 172
Oracles, refuted and ridiculed by Cicero, i. 165.
Plutarch's defence of their bad poetry, 165, _note_.
Refusal of Cato and the Stoics to consult them, 165.
Ridiculed by the Roman wits, 166.
Answer of the oracle of Delphi as to the best religion, 167.
Theory of the oracles in the 'De Divinatione' of Cicero, 368, and _note_.
Van Dale's denial of their supernatural character, 374.
Books of oracles burnt under the republic and empire, 447, and _note_
Origen, his desire for martyrdom, i. 391
Orphanotrophia, in the early Church, ii. 32
Otho, the Emperor, his suicide, i. 219.
Opinion of his contemporaries of his act, 219, _note_
Ovid, object of his "Metamorphoses," i. 166.
His condemnation of suicide, 213, and _note_.
His humanity to animals, ii. 165
Oxen, laws for the protection of, ii. 162
Oxyrinchus, ascetic life in the city of, ii. 105
Pachomius, St., number of his monks, ii. 105
Paetus and Arria, history of, ii. 310
Pagan religions, their feeble influence on morals, i. 161
Pagan virtues, the, compared with Christian, i. 190
Paiderastia, the, of the Greeks, ii. 294
Pain, equivalent to evil, according to the Utilitarians, i. 8, _note_
Palestine, foundation of monachism in, ii. 106.
Becomes a hot-bed of debauchery, 152
Paley, on the obligation of virtue, i. 14, _note_.
On the difference between an act of prudence and an act of duty, 16, _note_.
On the love we ought to bear to G.o.d, 18, _note_.
On the religious sanctions of morality, 19.
On the doctrine of a.s.sociation, 25, _note_.
On flesh diet, 49, _note_.
On the influence of health on happiness, 88, _note_.
On the difference in pleasures, 90, _note_
Pambos, St., story of, ii. 116, _note_
Pammachus, St., his hospital, ii. 80
Panaetius, the founder of the Roman Stoics, his disbelief in the immortality of the soul, i. 183
Pandars, punishment of, ii. 316
Parents, reason why some savages did not regard their murder as criminal, i. 101
Parthenon, the, at Athens, i. 105
Pascal, his advocacy of piety as a matter of prudence, i. 17, _note_.
His adherence to the opinion of Ockham as to the foundation of the moral law, 17, _note_.
His thought on the humiliation created by deriving pleasure from certain amus.e.m.e.nts, i. 86, _note_
Patriotism, period when it flourished, i. 136.
Peculiar characteristic of the virtue, 177, 178.
Causes of the predominance occasionally accorded to civic virtues, 200.
Neglect or discredit into which they have fallen among modern teachers, 201.
Cicero's remarks on the duty of every good man, 201.
Unfortunate relations of Christianity to patriotism, ii. 140.
