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... army of martyrs.13 But neither the dubious theology of Honorius nor the ignominious treat- ment of Martin stayed the very slow but steady progress of the Roman See towards the papal monarchy . The thick intellectual darkness of the time ...
... army of martyrs.13 But neither the dubious theology of Honorius nor the ignominious treat- ment of Martin stayed the very slow but steady progress of the Roman See towards the papal monarchy . The thick intellectual darkness of the time ...
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... army against Rome , compelled the Romans to swear fidelity , and confirmed Sergius after due submission . The Romans with great trepidation had Leo IV . conse- crated without the imperial confirmation on account of the neighbourhood of ...
... army against Rome , compelled the Romans to swear fidelity , and confirmed Sergius after due submission . The Romans with great trepidation had Leo IV . conse- crated without the imperial confirmation on account of the neighbourhood of ...
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... army of the Divine Con- queror there would be room for his fiery zeal and his formidable lance . The Frenchman slightly regarded the fall of the second and the rise of the third dynasty , cared little for the vanished royalty of the ...
... army of the Divine Con- queror there would be room for his fiery zeal and his formidable lance . The Frenchman slightly regarded the fall of the second and the rise of the third dynasty , cared little for the vanished royalty of the ...
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... army utterly discomfited by a little band of these matchless warriors at Civitella , and won from his defeat and captivity honours and advantages such as the most splendid victories seldom bring . The victorious Normans knelt in shame ...
... army utterly discomfited by a little band of these matchless warriors at Civitella , and won from his defeat and captivity honours and advantages such as the most splendid victories seldom bring . The victorious Normans knelt in shame ...
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... army , and the curse of Rome lay upon the English host . The Nor- man conquest was a victory of the popedom , and in no small measure the work of Hildebrand . He at once lent himself to the ambition of William and the proposals of ...
... army , and the curse of Rome lay upon the English host . The Nor- man conquest was a victory of the popedom , and in no small measure the work of Hildebrand . He at once lent himself to the ambition of William and the proposals 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.