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... Charles V. for the Possession of Italy . -Impotence of Clement VII . as an Antagonist of the Reformation and an Italian Patriot.- Storming of Rome . - Conference of Bologna . -Fall of Florence . - Co - operation of the Papacy in the ...
... Charles V. for the Possession of Italy . -Impotence of Clement VII . as an Antagonist of the Reformation and an Italian Patriot.- Storming of Rome . - Conference of Bologna . -Fall of Florence . - Co - operation of the Papacy in the ...
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... Charles Martel , Carloman , and Pepin , and subjected the regions opened by their victorious arms . Rome waxed stronger for these combined labours of the Frankish conquerors and the English missionaries.16 Boniface holds at once a lofty ...
... Charles Martel , Carloman , and Pepin , and subjected the regions opened by their victorious arms . Rome waxed stronger for these combined labours of the Frankish conquerors and the English missionaries.16 Boniface holds at once a lofty ...
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... Charles Martel , and the son of Charles , Pepin the Short , utterly effaced their sovereigns , and were the mighty men of Western Christendom , from which they beat back the onrushing tide of Islam . In 732 Charles Martel smote and ...
... Charles Martel , and the son of Charles , Pepin the Short , utterly effaced their sovereigns , and were the mighty men of Western Christendom , from which they beat back the onrushing tide of Islam . In 732 Charles Martel smote and ...
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... Charles Martel became chief of the Franks ( 715 ) , Leo became emperor of the East ( 716 ) ; and as the Saracens were for the first time put to shame before the Isaurian iconoclast under the walls of Constantinople ( 718 ) , so they ...
... Charles Martel became chief of the Franks ( 715 ) , Leo became emperor of the East ( 716 ) ; and as the Saracens were for the first time put to shame before the Isaurian iconoclast under the walls of Constantinople ( 718 ) , so they ...
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... Charles the Great and Adrian I. made their triumphant entry into Rome together in 774. Twenty - six years after , the conqueror of so 1 Epistolę Stephani II . , apud Concilia , tom . xvii . A most extraordinary invocation is that ...
... Charles the Great and Adrian I. made their triumphant entry into Rome together in 774. Twenty - six years after , the conqueror of so 1 Epistolę Stephani II . , apud Concilia , tom . xvii . A most extraordinary invocation is that ...
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Page 478 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 469 - Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.