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... Doctrine and Practice of the Roman Church . - Instance of In- dulgences . - Leo X. and Luther .-- Career of Luther , from his Branding of Indul- gences to his Burning of the Bull . - Boldness , Greatness and Fruitfulness of the latter ...
... Doctrine and Practice of the Roman Church . - Instance of In- dulgences . - Leo X. and Luther .-- Career of Luther , from his Branding of Indul- gences to his Burning of the Bull . - Boldness , Greatness and Fruitfulness of the latter ...
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... . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and its Hostility towards Rome . - Voltaire , an Anti - papal Potentate , an Enemy of Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the CONTENTS . XI.
... . - Degeneracy of the French Monarchy . - Supremacy of the French Mind and its Hostility towards Rome . - Voltaire , an Anti - papal Potentate , an Enemy of Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the CONTENTS . XI.
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A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the Roman Church.- Giannone an Assailant of the Political Popedom , relentlessly persecuted by succes- sive Popes . - Ludicrous ...
A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. Christianity mainly because of the Deeds and Doctrines of the Roman Church.- Giannone an Assailant of the Political Popedom , relentlessly persecuted by succes- sive Popes . - Ludicrous ...
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... doctrines and worship lost much of their purity and simplicity , her rulers grew more lordly , and her system of government grew more Roman . The weakness of the falling Empire added to her worldly strength . Too feeble and corrupt to ...
... doctrines and worship lost much of their purity and simplicity , her rulers grew more lordly , and her system of government grew more Roman . The weakness of the falling Empire added to her worldly strength . Too feeble and corrupt to ...
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... doctrines a mass of mingled truths and fables , its worship a heap of ceremonies , its table an altar , its ministry a sacrificing priest- hood , its bishops prelates , and the bishop of Rome sovereign pontiff . It is not the smallest ...
... doctrines a mass of mingled truths and fables , its worship a heap of ceremonies , its table an altar , its ministry a sacrificing priest- hood , its bishops prelates , and the bishop of Rome sovereign pontiff . It is not the smallest ...
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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.