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... Christendom . - England and Bohemia especially alienated . - Attempts to make an End of the Schism . - Stubbornness of the contend- ing Pontiffs . - The Council of Pisa . - Christendom a Three - headed Monster . - The Emperor Sigismund ...
... Christendom . - England and Bohemia especially alienated . - Attempts to make an End of the Schism . - Stubbornness of the contend- ing Pontiffs . - The Council of Pisa . - Christendom a Three - headed Monster . - The Emperor Sigismund ...
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... Christendom . Both without and within the Church the gloom was thickening . The light of living genius and learning was altogether withholden ; the light of ancient genius and learning was fast becoming hidden . The Word of God was ...
... Christendom . Both without and within the Church the gloom was thickening . The light of living genius and learning was altogether withholden ; the light of ancient genius and learning was fast becoming hidden . The Word of God was ...
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... Christendom leaned more and more upon a Roman centre ; benighted Christendom groped more helplessly after a Roman guide . At length , in Gregory the Great ( 590-604 ) , a man of no mean might and no ordinary gifts sate in the Roman ...
... Christendom leaned more and more upon a Roman centre ; benighted Christendom groped more helplessly after a Roman guide . At length , in Gregory the Great ( 590-604 ) , a man of no mean might and no ordinary gifts sate in the Roman ...
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... Christendom . This inward ill came upon the Church on the eve of a great outward calamity . While Gregory was fawning upon Phocas , Mohammed was entertaining the angel Gabriel in the cave of Hera ; when Boniface won from the detestable ...
... Christendom . This inward ill came upon the Church on the eve of a great outward calamity . While Gregory was fawning upon Phocas , Mohammed was entertaining the angel Gabriel in the cave of Hera ; when Boniface won from the detestable ...
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... Christendom by the Arabs towards the East and South , they drew direct and signal benefit from its extension towards the North . The conversion of nations became more and more advantageous to them . In attempting the conversion of ...
... Christendom by the Arabs towards the East and South , they drew direct and signal benefit from its extension towards the North . The conversion of nations became more and more advantageous to them . In attempting the conversion of ...
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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.