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... Louis of Bavaria . - Peculiarities of their Conflict . - The Emperor sup- ported by the leading Intellects of the Age . - Spiritual and Intellectual Activity of the Fourteenth Century . That Activity strongly Anti - Papal , especially ...
... Louis of Bavaria . - Peculiarities of their Conflict . - The Emperor sup- ported by the leading Intellects of the Age . - Spiritual and Intellectual Activity of the Fourteenth Century . That Activity strongly Anti - Papal , especially ...
Page xi
... Louis XIV . a Period of Papal Decline . - The great Men and great Events of the Age uninfluenced by the Papacy . - The Popes effaced , humbled and out- raged by Louis . - The Four Articles . - Louis at Enmity with Innocent XI . and ...
... Louis XIV . a Period of Papal Decline . - The great Men and great Events of the Age uninfluenced by the Papacy . - The Popes effaced , humbled and out- raged by Louis . - The Four Articles . - Louis at Enmity with Innocent XI . and ...
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... Louis , known at once as Louis the Kindly and Louis the Pious , whose kindliness degenerated into heedless facility , and his piety into superstitious weakness . The indulger and the victim of his wife , his children , and his priests ...
... Louis , known at once as Louis the Kindly and Louis the Pious , whose kindliness degenerated into heedless facility , and his piety into superstitious weakness . The indulger and the victim of his wife , his children , and his priests ...
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... Louis II . , to take back , for a while at least , the wife whom he had put away , and to repudiate the mistress whom he had married , and constrained Hinkmar , archbishop of Rheims , the first writer , the most powerful church- man ...
... Louis II . , to take back , for a while at least , the wife whom he had put away , and to repudiate the mistress whom he had married , and constrained Hinkmar , archbishop of Rheims , the first writer , the most powerful church- man ...
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... Louis the Stammerer , Louis the Sluggard , and Louis the Outlander . Few periods in history have been darker and more dreary than the 170 years which witnessed the decline of the posterity of Charlemagne ( 814-987 ) . A general ...
... Louis the Stammerer , Louis the Sluggard , and Louis the Outlander . Few periods in history have been darker and more dreary than the 170 years which witnessed the decline of the posterity of Charlemagne ( 814-987 ) . A general ...
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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.