"Immaculate conception" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the immaculate conception, common to Vishnuism and Buddhism (above, p.431), can have no exact parallel in Civaism, for Civa is not born as a child; but it seems to be reflected in the laughable ascription of virginity to Um[a] (Civa's wife), when she ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
... quarrels which arose between these orders, lying still under the control of the sovereign pontiff, never disturbed the peace of the church, and served only as a spur to their industry in promoting the common cause; and though the Dominicans lost some popularity by their denial of the immaculate conception,—a point in which they unwarily engaged too far to be able to recede with honor,—they counterbalanced this disadvantage by acquiring more solid establishments, by gaining the confidence of kings and princes, and by exercising the jurisdiction ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume |
