 | Charles Smith Bird - 1851 - 476 pages
...once impiously dedicated " by Agrippa to Jupiter and all the false Gods, " now piously reconsecrated by Pope Boniface the " Fourth, to the Blessed Virgin and all the Saints." Mr. Hobart Seymour's recent " Pilgrimage to Rome," gives us the inscription which is on the Cathedral... | |
 | Alexander Leitch - 1852 - 350 pages
...the Pantheon, the noblest heathen temple that yet remains, bore an inscription to this effect : that having been impiously dedicated of old by Agrippa to Jove and all the gods, it was piously re-consecrated by pope Boniface IV. to the blessed Virgin and all the saints. The inscription,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 424 pages
...more to blame are those who make it so. The inscription over the Roman Pantheon is as follows: — " Impiously dedicated of old by Agrippa to Jove and all the gods, now piously consecrated by Pope Boniface IV. to the blessed Virgin and all the saints!" Nothing can... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - 1852 - 818 pages
...at all violent or unnatural from Pagan to Popish idolatry, when the heathen Pantheon, which had been dedicated of old by Agrippa to Jove and all the gods, was reconsecrated by the Pope to the Virgin and all the saints. It was quite in keeping; on such an occasion... | |
 | Jesuit executorship - 1853 - 372 pages
...saint. ' The noblest heathen temple now remaining in the world, is the Pantheon, or Rotunda; which having been impiously dedicated of old by Agrippa, to Jove and all the gods, was piously re-consecrated by Pope Boniface IV., to the Blessed Virgin and all the saints. And what better title... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 520 pages
...heathen temple now remaining in the world is the Pantheon or Rotunda ; which, as the inscription over the portico informs us, ' having been impiously dedicated...old by Agrippa to Jove and all the gods, was piously reconsecrated by Pope Boniface the Fourth to the blessed Virgin and all the saints.' With this single... | |
 | Chandler Curtis - 1866 - 436 pages
...heathen temple now remaining in the world, is the Pantheon or rotunda, which, as the inscription! over the "portico informs us, having been impiously dedicated...by Agrippa, to Jove and all the gods, was piously reconsecrated by pope Boniface the fourth, to the blessed Virgin and all the saints. With this single... | |
 | Chandler Curtis - 1866 - 432 pages
...heathen temple now remaining in the world, is the Pantheon or rotunda, which, as the inscription f over the portico informs us, having been impiously dedicated of old, -by Agrippa, to Jpve and all the gods, was piously reconsecrated by pope Boniface the fourth, to the blessed Virgin... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pages
...noblest heathen temple now remaining in the world is the Pantheon in Home, which, as the inscription over the portico informs us, having been impiously dedicated...Jove and all the gods,* was piously consecrated by St. Boniface the Fourth to the blessed Virgin and all Saints/ With this single alteration, it serves... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - 1868 - 194 pages
...heathen temple now remaining in the world is the Pantheon or Rotunda ; which, as the inscription f over the portico informs us, having been " impiously dedicated...old by Agrippa to Jove and all the gods, was piously reconsecrated by Pope Boniface the Fourth, to the blessed Virgin and all the saints." With this single... | |
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With this single alteration, it serves as exactly for all the purposes of the Popish as it did for the Pagan worship for which it was built. For as in the old temple every one might find the... 
