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... foreign invasion increased the desire and enhanced the importance of a central power . The Roman bishops of the seventh century were personally insignificant , and remain unmemorable . That dreary age had its meanness broken by the ...
... foreign invasion increased the desire and enhanced the importance of a central power . The Roman bishops of the seventh century were personally insignificant , and remain unmemorable . That dreary age had its meanness broken by the ...
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... foreign domination . In accordance with its indifference as to means and its inflexibility as to ends , the same papacy which made over England and Ireland to ruthless invaders took part with Italy against her foreign rulers . The same ...
... foreign domination . In accordance with its indifference as to means and its inflexibility as to ends , the same papacy which made over England and Ireland to ruthless invaders took part with Italy against her foreign rulers . The same ...
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... foreign usurper , St. Thomas of Canter- bury sank into the traitor Becket . The rifled shrine and the scattered relics of the great sacerdotal champion were not un- meet accompaniments of those statutes which broke the papal yoke and ...
... foreign usurper , St. Thomas of Canter- bury sank into the traitor Becket . The rifled shrine and the scattered relics of the great sacerdotal champion were not un- meet accompaniments of those statutes which broke the papal yoke and ...
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... foreign oppressor , and broke the ecclesiastical yoke of the Roman extortioner . Spiritual revolts have not always been victories ; but the only complete victories won over Rome have been spiritual victories . The Roman Church has ...
... foreign oppressor , and broke the ecclesiastical yoke of the Roman extortioner . Spiritual revolts have not always been victories ; but the only complete victories won over Rome have been spiritual victories . The Roman Church has ...
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... foreign foes ( B. C. 344 ) ; not the hasty expedi- tion of the restless Pyrrhus ( B. c . 278-7 ) ; not the entrance of the Romans followed by the first Punic war ( B. c . 265–41 ) ; not their final conquest of the island under Mar ...
... foreign foes ( B. C. 344 ) ; not the hasty expedi- tion of the restless Pyrrhus ( B. c . 278-7 ) ; not the entrance of the Romans followed by the first Punic war ( B. c . 265–41 ) ; not their final conquest of the island under Mar ...
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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.