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... Pius V. as a Pontiff and Combatant of the Reformation.— Scarcely inferior Merits of Gregory XIII . - Various Incidents of the Battle be- tween Rome and the Reformation . - The Bartholomew Massacre appropriated and hallowed by Gregory ...
... Pius V. as a Pontiff and Combatant of the Reformation.— Scarcely inferior Merits of Gregory XIII . - Various Incidents of the Battle be- tween Rome and the Reformation . - The Bartholomew Massacre appropriated and hallowed by Gregory ...
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... Pius VI . - His not unhappy Relations with the Age . - His Dealings with Reforming Princes , with Joseph II . and Leopold of Tuscany . - Position of the Popedom during the Eighteenth Century . — General Ex- pectation of its gradual ...
... Pius VI . - His not unhappy Relations with the Age . - His Dealings with Reforming Princes , with Joseph II . and Leopold of Tuscany . - Position of the Popedom during the Eighteenth Century . — General Ex- pectation of its gradual ...
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... Pius and a Celestine have been not un- meetly named ; but as a body these loftily designated sovereigns of the Roman Church have by no means transcended in mercy , beneficence and godliness the Henries , Edwards , Charleses and ...
... Pius and a Celestine have been not un- meetly named ; but as a body these loftily designated sovereigns of the Roman Church have by no means transcended in mercy , beneficence and godliness the Henries , Edwards , Charleses and ...
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... Pius II . Pope Felix too lived chiefly apart from his constituents , at Lausanne , and a war between the Switzers and the House of Austria , in which the people of Basle took part , and which brought a large French army to the city ...
... Pius II . Pope Felix too lived chiefly apart from his constituents , at Lausanne , and a war between the Switzers and the House of Austria , in which the people of Basle took part , and which brought a large French army to the city ...
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... Pius II . anathematised the work at which he had assisted at Basle.29 Another deserter of the council and its first president , Cardinal Julian , is mainly remembered as the leader of two unsuccessful crusades , the first against the ...
... Pius II . anathematised the work at which he had assisted at Basle.29 Another deserter of the council and its first president , Cardinal Julian , is mainly remembered as the leader of two unsuccessful crusades , the first against the ...
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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.