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... devoted wife and a tender mother , but a still more savage zealot , she diligently oppressed the iconoclasts , and ruthlessly slaughtered the Paulicians , those Protestant Gnostics who dwelt in Armenia and Pontus , the borderland ...
... devoted wife and a tender mother , but a still more savage zealot , she diligently oppressed the iconoclasts , and ruthlessly slaughtered the Paulicians , those Protestant Gnostics who dwelt in Armenia and Pontus , the borderland ...
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... devoted handmaid : the harlot used the popedom for her lust ; the popedom used the devotee for its ambition . Marozia had a papal paramour and a papal posterity . The bastard whom she bore to Pope Sergius became Pope John XI . ( 931-35 ) ...
... devoted handmaid : the harlot used the popedom for her lust ; the popedom used the devotee for its ambition . Marozia had a papal paramour and a papal posterity . The bastard whom she bore to Pope Sergius became Pope John XI . ( 931-35 ) ...
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... devoted an inflexible will , an ample genius , a 35 St. Bruno , in his life of Pope Leo IX . ( Muratori , tom . iii . pt . ii . pp . 348–54 ) , in enumerating the scandals of the time , ends with the anti - climax of clerical wed- lock ...
... devoted an inflexible will , an ample genius , a 35 St. Bruno , in his life of Pope Leo IX . ( Muratori , tom . iii . pt . ii . pp . 348–54 ) , in enumerating the scandals of the time , ends with the anti - climax of clerical wed- lock ...
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... devoted to their promulgation , begot equal admiration and alarm , astonished and ravished the ardent youth , amazed and terrified the strict ecclesiastics of the time.27 . 24 Baronius , an . 1126 , 1147 . 25 Gilbert forestalled the ...
... devoted to their promulgation , begot equal admiration and alarm , astonished and ravished the ardent youth , amazed and terrified the strict ecclesiastics of the time.27 . 24 Baronius , an . 1126 , 1147 . 25 Gilbert forestalled the ...
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... devoted liegemen to the protracted domination of stubborn heretics.36 The death of Adrian only aggravated the strife between papacy and empire . Violence attended the new election : two pontiffs were chosen , Alexander III . and Victor ...
... devoted liegemen to the protracted domination of stubborn heretics.36 The death of Adrian only aggravated the strife between papacy and empire . Violence attended the new election : two pontiffs were chosen , Alexander III . and Victor ...
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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.