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Page vii
... Emperors and the brief Predomi- nance of successive Barbarian Conquerors . — Personal Insignificance of the early Roman ... Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the Roman See . -Evil Character of its ...
... Emperors and the brief Predomi- nance of successive Barbarian Conquerors . — Personal Insignificance of the early Roman ... Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the Roman See . -Evil Character of its ...
Page viii
... Emperor and Master of the Popedom , which he attempts to Reform without much Success . - Deep Darkness of the Time brightened for a Moment by the Expectation of Christ's Coming at the End of the Tenth Century . - Continual Wickedness of ...
... Emperor and Master of the Popedom , which he attempts to Reform without much Success . - Deep Darkness of the Time brightened for a Moment by the Expectation of Christ's Coming at the End of the Tenth Century . - Continual Wickedness of ...
Page ix
... Emperor and Patriarch at Constantinople , but far more thoroughly served by the Crusade against the Albigenses . - The Rise , Character and Extirpation of those Anti - Papal Believers . - The Reign of Innocent appropriately closed by ...
... Emperor and Patriarch at Constantinople , but far more thoroughly served by the Crusade against the Albigenses . - The Rise , Character and Extirpation of those Anti - Papal Believers . - The Reign of Innocent appropriately closed by ...
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... Emperor and his Prisoner . - Concordat of Fontainebleau cancelled by the Overthrow of Napoleon . - Restoration of Pius by the victorious Coalition.- The Popedom still in the Grasp of the French Revolution . - Delivered from Impe- rial ...
... Emperor and his Prisoner . - Concordat of Fontainebleau cancelled by the Overthrow of Napoleon . - Restoration of Pius by the victorious Coalition.- The Popedom still in the Grasp of the French Revolution . - Delivered from Impe- rial ...
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... emperor , helped to advance the power and prominence of the Roman bishops . Shaken Christendom leaned more and more upon a Roman centre ; benighted Christendom groped more helplessly after a Roman guide . At length , in Gregory the ...
... emperor , helped to advance the power and prominence of the Roman bishops . Shaken Christendom leaned more and more upon a Roman centre ; benighted Christendom groped more helplessly after a Roman guide . At length , in Gregory the ...
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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.