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... Spain and Austria . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and its Hostility towards Rome . - Voltaire , an Anti - papal Potentate , an Enemy of Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the ...
... Spain and Austria . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and its Hostility towards Rome . - Voltaire , an Anti - papal Potentate , an Enemy of Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the ...
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... Spain . - The Papacy patronised by the Holy Alliance . - Singular Career of Pius VII . - Aggrava- tion of Italian Discontent under his Successors . - Roman Catholic Emancipation in Great Britain . - Anti - sacerdotal Revolution of July ...
... Spain . - The Papacy patronised by the Holy Alliance . - Singular Career of Pius VII . - Aggrava- tion of Italian Discontent under his Successors . - Roman Catholic Emancipation in Great Britain . - Anti - sacerdotal Revolution of July ...
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... Spain has appropriated and metamorphosed St. James . As the victim of Herod Agrippa was too undeniably killed in Jerusalem to be put to death in Spain , his body was miraculously conveyed thither . He became the champion of Spain and ...
... Spain has appropriated and metamorphosed St. James . As the victim of Herod Agrippa was too undeniably killed in Jerusalem to be put to death in Spain , his body was miraculously conveyed thither . He became the champion of Spain and ...
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... Spain , King Ethel- bert of England , and the two terrible women who desolated France , Brunehild and Fredegonde . That dark , rude , and afflicted age yielded no writer superior to Gregory , no luminary so benignant , and no spirit so ...
... Spain , King Ethel- bert of England , and the two terrible women who desolated France , Brunehild and Fredegonde . That dark , rude , and afflicted age yielded no writer superior to Gregory , no luminary so benignant , and no spirit so ...
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... Spain , the crescent replaced the cross . But the Roman See grew and throve upon this great woe of the Church . Christen- dom , already half pagan and half imperial , variously corrupted and deeply idolatrous , almost incapable of ...
... Spain , the crescent replaced the cross . But the Roman See grew and throve upon this great woe of the Church . Christen- dom , already half pagan and half imperial , variously corrupted and deeply idolatrous , almost incapable 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.