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... history of the Roman Church ; I do not profess to write a minute and detailed history of the popes : but I do profess to tell with some fullness and comprehensiveness the story of the popedom , to follow it from its origin to the ...
... history of the Roman Church ; I do not profess to write a minute and detailed history of the popes : but I do profess to tell with some fullness and comprehensiveness the story of the popedom , to follow it from its origin to the ...
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... historical studies which form the chief employment and delight of my life . A dis- quisition on the Italian aspects of the papal history gradually expanded into the present volume , which , com- menced at the beginning of 1860 , was ...
... historical studies which form the chief employment and delight of my life . A dis- quisition on the Italian aspects of the papal history gradually expanded into the present volume , which , com- menced at the beginning of 1860 , was ...
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A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. CONTENTS . BOOK I. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE POPEDOM . The Christian Church and the ... History . - Dealings between the Papacy and his Successors . - The False Decretals . - Nicholas I.— Growing ...
A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. CONTENTS . BOOK I. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE POPEDOM . The Christian Church and the ... History . - Dealings between the Papacy and his Successors . - The False Decretals . - Nicholas I.— Growing ...
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A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. boon of the Reformation . - All its great Writers Political or Spiritual . Protestants Bacon , Hooker , Raleigh . - Sir Philip Sidney a ... HISTORY , SO abounding in wonders , xiv CONTENTS .
A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. boon of the Reformation . - All its great Writers Political or Spiritual . Protestants Bacon , Hooker , Raleigh . - Sir Philip Sidney a ... HISTORY , SO abounding in wonders , xiv CONTENTS .
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A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. INTRODUCTION . -- HISTORY , SO abounding in wonders , so full of strange sights and extraordinary changes , perhaps presents its master - marvel and its most singular transformation in the story ...
A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. INTRODUCTION . -- HISTORY , SO abounding in wonders , so full of strange sights and extraordinary changes , perhaps presents its master - marvel and its most singular transformation in the story ...
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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.