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... dominion . Every secular capacity , all the strength and splendour of this world - material enjoyment , despotic ambition , democratic aspiration — had summed themselves up in imperial- ism , just when every lofty longing and noble ...
... dominion . Every secular capacity , all the strength and splendour of this world - material enjoyment , despotic ambition , democratic aspiration — had summed themselves up in imperial- ism , just when every lofty longing and noble ...
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... dominion upon a fable , and its worldly dominion upon a forgery . The most conspicuous apostle was bound to be the first pope ; the first Christian emperor was bound to make the pope a prince . History endured another and still more ...
... dominion upon a fable , and its worldly dominion upon a forgery . The most conspicuous apostle was bound to be the first pope ; the first Christian emperor was bound to make the pope a prince . History endured another and still more ...
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... dominion . King Astolf took Ravenna from the Eastern emperor , and then led his Lombards against the rebellious Roman bishop . The pontiffs looked across the Alps , invoked the sword of the Franks to break the sword of C 2 II . ] EARLY ...
... dominion . King Astolf took Ravenna from the Eastern emperor , and then led his Lombards against the rebellious Roman bishop . The pontiffs looked across the Alps , invoked the sword of the Franks to break the sword of C 2 II . ] EARLY ...
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... dominion of the West ; Pope Leo called this dominion the Holy Roman Empire , and professed to invest the conquests of the mighty Teuton with the dignity and reverence which still sur- rounded the old Roman Empire , as well as with the ...
... dominion of the West ; Pope Leo called this dominion the Holy Roman Empire , and professed to invest the conquests of the mighty Teuton with the dignity and reverence which still sur- rounded the old Roman Empire , as well as with the ...
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... dominion , and welded the West into one vast empire . Hereditary king of the Franks , conqueror of the Lombards , subjugator of the Saxons and the Moors , master of France , Germany , Italy , and Hungary , potent in Spain , and ...
... dominion , and welded the West into one vast empire . Hereditary king of the Franks , conqueror of the Lombards , subjugator of the Saxons and the Moors , master of France , Germany , Italy , and Hungary , potent in Spain , 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.