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... head of the Christian community there ; and the fall of the Western Empire ( 476 ) left the Roman bishop the greatest personage in the chief city of the world . The barbarians beheld in the somewhat secularised Church the representative ...
... head of the Christian community there ; and the fall of the Western Empire ( 476 ) left the Roman bishop the greatest personage in the chief city of the world . The barbarians beheld in the somewhat secularised Church the representative ...
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... head of the Christian community at Rome , whereof he was simply an influential member ; 3 and for centuries the list of Roman pastors contains not one name which stirs the heart and imagination , or which holds a great place in the ...
... head of the Christian community at Rome , whereof he was simply an influential member ; 3 and for centuries the list of Roman pastors contains not one name which stirs the heart and imagination , or which holds a great place in the ...
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... head of Christendom ( 606 ) . The bounty of such a patron has been slighted and slurred over by Roman Catholic writers , while Protestant writers have loudly magnified and keenly enjoyed it . An impartial historian , however , must ...
... head of Christendom ( 606 ) . The bounty of such a patron has been slighted and slurred over by Roman Catholic writers , while Protestant writers have loudly magnified and keenly enjoyed it . An impartial historian , however , must ...
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... head , and to pervert the power of the Church into the very end and object of her existence , found , in the rise of Islam , another source of attraction towards Rome . Dismemberment recommended outward unity ; foreign invasion ...
... head , and to pervert the power of the Church into the very end and object of her existence , found , in the rise of Islam , another source of attraction towards Rome . Dismemberment recommended outward unity ; foreign invasion ...
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... head of Charles the Great , and hailed him Emperor of the Romans.3 The Western Empire reappeared . The pontiff and the Cæsar stood side by side , most strangely and confusedly bound together , each depending upon the other , each at ...
... head of Charles the Great , and hailed him Emperor of the Romans.3 The Western Empire reappeared . The pontiff and the Cæsar stood side by side , most strangely and confusedly bound together , each depending upon the other , each at ...
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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.