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Page vi
... chief employment and delight of my life . A dis- quisition on the Italian aspects of the papal history gradually expanded into the present volume , which , com- menced at the beginning of 1860 , was finished at the end of 1862 ...
... chief employment and delight of my life . A dis- quisition on the Italian aspects of the papal history gradually expanded into the present volume , which , com- menced at the beginning of 1860 , was finished at the end of 1862 ...
Page viii
... sub- jection of its chief Personages . - Victory over Philip Augustus of France . - Humilia- tion of John Lackland and Degradation of England into a Tributary Realm of Rome . - Deposition of Cæsar Otho . - Innocent's viii CONTENTS .
... sub- jection of its chief Personages . - Victory over Philip Augustus of France . - Humilia- tion of John Lackland and Degradation of England into a Tributary Realm of Rome . - Deposition of Cæsar Otho . - Innocent's viii CONTENTS .
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... chief Actor , but in some of the subordinate Actors , France , Austria and England , especially in France . - From the Eighth to the Nineteenth Century the French Monarchy the exacting Benefactor and oppressive Protector of the Roman ...
... chief Actor , but in some of the subordinate Actors , France , Austria and England , especially in France . - From the Eighth to the Nineteenth Century the French Monarchy the exacting Benefactor and oppressive Protector of the Roman ...
Page xvi
... chief strangeness of the papal story . The contem- plation throughout its whole career of a power of such long duration and such various fortunes , of such pretensions and such performances , may serve to bring out the romance and ...
... chief strangeness of the papal story . The contem- plation throughout its whole career of a power of such long duration and such various fortunes , of such pretensions and such performances , may serve to bring out the romance and ...
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... 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 retained some reverence even while ...
... 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 retained some reverence even while ...
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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.