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... held brute force in some check . But it was as much a spiritual corruption in the eleventh as in the sixteenth or the nineteenth century . Circumstances have rendered it more or less formidable , more or less pernicious ; but it has ...
... held brute force in some check . But it was as much a spiritual corruption in the eleventh as in the sixteenth or the nineteenth century . Circumstances have rendered it more or less formidable , more or less pernicious ; but it has ...
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... held out its 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 ...
... held out its 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 ...
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... held the office of a Roman pastor . The genius and sanctity of the early Church had but faint manifestation at Rome ; her greatest names were connected with the inferior cities rather than with the metropolis of the world . Polycarp ...
... held the office of a Roman pastor . The genius and sanctity of the early Church had but faint manifestation at Rome ; her greatest names were connected with the inferior cities rather than with the metropolis of the world . Polycarp ...
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... held the highest and most con- spicuous place , through the extent of their conquests , the per- manence of their possession , and the perpetual renovation of their national vigour . The Burgundians soon became their sub- jects , as the ...
... held the highest and most con- spicuous place , through the extent of their conquests , the per- manence of their possession , and the perpetual renovation of their national vigour . The Burgundians soon became their sub- jects , as the ...
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... held the foremost place in medieval Europe , and which maintained the highest conven- tional and official rank to a period within the memory of men now living , of which Napoleon I. made an end , and of which Fran- cis II . of Austria ...
... held the foremost place in medieval Europe , and which maintained the highest conven- tional and official rank to a period within the memory of men now living , of which Napoleon I. made an end , and of which Fran- cis II . of Austria ...
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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.