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... century . Circumstances have rendered it more or less formidable , more or less pernicious ; but it has remained throughout the supreme corruption of Christianity ; and as such I deal with it throughout this volume . The Italian events ...
... century . Circumstances have rendered it more or less formidable , more or less pernicious ; but it has remained throughout the supreme corruption of Christianity ; and as such I deal with it throughout this volume . The Italian events ...
Page vii
... Century BOOK II . THE EARLY STRUGGLES AND EXCESSES OF THE POPEDOM . PAGE 1 The Franks , their Prominence , Conquests and Connection with the Papacy . - Exchange of Services between the French Monarchy and the Roman See . - Pepin and ...
... Century BOOK II . THE EARLY STRUGGLES AND EXCESSES OF THE POPEDOM . PAGE 1 The Franks , their Prominence , Conquests and Connection with the Papacy . - Exchange of Services between the French Monarchy and the Roman See . - Pepin and ...
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... Century . - Continual Wickedness of the Popes . - Appearance of another Imperial Master and Reformer of the Papacy in Cæsar Henry III . in 1046. - The Reformer welcome but the Master odious to a growing Party in the Church , eager for ...
... Century . - Continual Wickedness of the Popes . - Appearance of another Imperial Master and Reformer of the Papacy in Cæsar Henry III . in 1046. - The Reformer welcome but the Master odious to a growing Party in the Church , eager for ...
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... Century to the Papal Power . - The great Men of the Time either awed or wielded thereby . - Isolation , Forlornness and Heroism of Frederick . - His Death in the midst of the Struggle . - Proscription of his Race by successive Popes and ...
... Century to the Papal Power . - The great Men of the Time either awed or wielded thereby . - Isolation , Forlornness and Heroism of Frederick . - His Death in the midst of the Struggle . - Proscription of his Race by successive Popes and ...
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... Century . - Growth of Protestant and Anti - Papal Powers , Great Britain , Prussia and Russia . - Decline of Roman Catholic States , Poland , Spain and Austria . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and ...
... Century . - Growth of Protestant and Anti - Papal Powers , Great Britain , Prussia and Russia . - Decline of Roman Catholic States , Poland , Spain and Austria . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and ...
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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.