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... Italian Popery , has stirred me to the production of this volume . I put it forth with the earnest hope and prayer that Italy may be rid ere long of that papacy which has wrought her such shame and evil , and that England may ever ...
... Italian Popery , has stirred me to the production of this volume . I put it forth with the earnest hope and prayer that Italy may be rid ere long of that papacy which has wrought her such shame and evil , and that England may ever ...
Page x
... Italian Politics and comparatively indifferent to the Reforma- tion . - Diet of Worms and Seclusion of Luther . - Death of Leo in the midst of his Conquests in Italy . - Curious Contrast between his Fortunes as a Prince and as a Pontiff ...
... Italian Politics and comparatively indifferent to the Reforma- tion . - Diet of Worms and Seclusion of Luther . - Death of Leo in the midst of his Conquests in Italy . - Curious Contrast between his Fortunes as a Prince and as a Pontiff ...
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... Italy proclaimed in 1861. - The Making of Italy the Marring of the Papacy . - Its Deadly Peril and Gloomy Prospects BOOK XI . ITALY AND THE POPEDOM . · · 342 The Popes ever tenacious of their Italian Principality . - Frequently ...
... Italy proclaimed in 1861. - The Making of Italy the Marring of the Papacy . - Its Deadly Peril and Gloomy Prospects BOOK XI . ITALY AND THE POPEDOM . · · 342 The Popes ever tenacious of their Italian Principality . - Frequently ...
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... Italian prince , and the bishop of Rome crowned the Teuton king Holy Roman Emperor . That Italian principality which Pepin bestowed and which Charlemagne confirmed , which the popes so eagerly caught at and so pas- sionately clung to ...
... Italian prince , and the bishop of Rome crowned the Teuton king Holy Roman Emperor . That Italian principality which Pepin bestowed and which Charlemagne confirmed , which the popes so eagerly caught at and so pas- sionately clung to ...
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... Italy and the nomina- tion of the popes . Petty Italian princes and noble Roman strumpets had taken upon themselves to nominate pontiffs , and had nominated monsters . Otho the Great undertook to uplift the fallen Roman empire and to ...
... Italy and the nomina- tion of the popes . Petty Italian princes and noble Roman strumpets had taken upon themselves to nominate pontiffs , and had nominated monsters . Otho the Great undertook to uplift the fallen Roman empire and to ...
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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.