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... hand papal panegyrists have often congratulated popes on the happy expression of their character by their name . Gunther in his poem , de Gestis Frederici Enobarbi , speaks of Innocent II . ( 1130-43 ) as a pontiff who ' fetches a ...
... hand papal panegyrists have often congratulated popes on the happy expression of their character by their name . Gunther in his poem , de Gestis Frederici Enobarbi , speaks of Innocent II . ( 1130-43 ) as a pontiff who ' fetches a ...
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... hand to the Church ; imperialism accepted Christianity . When the two foes became friends , each had somewhat degenerated . The kingdom of this world was waxing weak ; the kingdom not B of this world was losing power . The Church ,
... hand to the Church ; imperialism accepted Christianity . When the two foes became friends , each had somewhat degenerated . The kingdom of this world was waxing weak ; the kingdom not B of this world was losing power . The Church ,
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... hand . In 726 he began the warfare against images , first banished them from the churches , and then had them broken and burned , and after a fierce struggle with the monks and the mob , for whom the darkness of the time had made image ...
... hand . In 726 he began the warfare against images , first banished them from the churches , and then had them broken and burned , and after a fierce struggle with the monks and the mob , for whom the darkness of the time had made image ...
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... hands the bestowal of that Roman Empire which came into being about the same time as that Christian Church into the topmost place whereof he had thrust him- self , and professed to consecrate the dignity which he trans- ferred . That ...
... hands the bestowal of that Roman Empire which came into being about the same time as that Christian Church into the topmost place whereof he had thrust him- self , and professed to consecrate the dignity which he trans- ferred . That ...
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... hands of his degenerate descendants , who at the end of a century and a half disappeared from the high places of the world . The Empire of the West which Charle- magne in reality revived , and over which he in truth ruled , scarcely ...
... hands of his degenerate descendants , who at the end of a century and a half disappeared from the high places of the world . The Empire of the West which Charle- magne in reality revived , and over which he in truth ruled , scarcely ...
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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.