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... Bishop of Rome into a Prince and Pontiff , assisted by the Fall of the Western Empire , the Absence of the Eastern Emperors and the brief Predomi- nance of successive Barbarian Conquerors . — Personal Insignificance of the early Roman ...
... Bishop of Rome into a Prince and Pontiff , assisted by the Fall of the Western Empire , the Absence of the Eastern Emperors and the brief Predomi- nance of successive Barbarian Conquerors . — Personal Insignificance of the early Roman ...
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... bishop the greatest personage in the chief city of the world . The barbarians beheld in the somewhat secularised Church the representative of the faith which most of them professed , and the representa- tive of the empire for which they ...
... bishop the greatest personage in the chief city of the world . The barbarians beheld in the somewhat secularised Church the representative of the faith which most of them professed , and the representa- tive of the empire for which they ...
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... bishops prelates , and the bishop of Rome sovereign pontiff . It is not the smallest singularity about this process , how little this exaltation of the Roman bishopric was aided by any tran- scendent virtues , eminent abilities , or ...
... bishops prelates , and the bishop of Rome sovereign pontiff . It is not the smallest singularity about this process , how little this exaltation of the Roman bishopric was aided by any tran- scendent virtues , eminent abilities , or ...
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... bishops was broken only by Leo I. ( 440–461 ) , not unworthily entitled Great , at once per- sonally noble and ... bishop against the Sixth Council of Carthage , about 420 , at which Augustine assisted , and who vainly endeavoured ...
... bishops was broken only by Leo I. ( 440–461 ) , not unworthily entitled Great , at once per- sonally noble and ... bishop against the Sixth Council of Carthage , about 420 , at which Augustine assisted , and who vainly endeavoured ...
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... bishop of Rome withdraws for a moment our gaze from her last great sovereign , the noble Theodosius ; from her first Teutonic captor , the valiant Alaric ; from her last illustrious champion , the patrician Ætius ; from her great Gothic ...
... bishop of Rome withdraws for a moment our gaze from her last great sovereign , the noble Theodosius ; from her first Teutonic captor , the valiant Alaric ; from her last illustrious champion , the patrician Ætius ; from her great Gothic ...
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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.