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Page vii
... latter . His Obsequiousness and the Subserviency of his Successors to the Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the Roman See . -Evil Character of its first Imperial Benefactor .-- The Growth of the ...
... latter . His Obsequiousness and the Subserviency of his Successors to the Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the Roman See . -Evil Character of its first Imperial Benefactor .-- The Growth of the ...
Page viii
... latter . His thorough Mastery of the Age and sub- jection of its chief Personages . - Victory over Philip Augustus of France . - Humilia- tion of John Lackland and Degradation of England into a Tributary Realm of Rome . - Deposition of ...
... latter . His thorough Mastery of the Age and sub- jection of its chief Personages . - Victory over Philip Augustus of France . - Humilia- tion of John Lackland and Degradation of England into a Tributary Realm of Rome . - Deposition of ...
Page x
... latter Half of the Fifteenth Century . - The Popes enfeebled and shrunken as Pontiffs ; but busy , important , unscrupulous and successful as Italian Princes . - End of the Dark Ages . - The Time a Period of great Expansion and immense ...
... latter Half of the Fifteenth Century . - The Popes enfeebled and shrunken as Pontiffs ; but busy , important , unscrupulous and successful as Italian Princes . - End of the Dark Ages . - The Time a Period of great Expansion and immense ...
Page 10
... latter the title of supreme and universal bishop so fiercely branded by the former , and formally declared the Roman See the head of Christendom ( 606 ) . The bounty of such a patron has been slighted and slurred over by Roman Catholic ...
... latter the title of supreme and universal bishop so fiercely branded by the former , and formally declared the Roman See the head of Christendom ( 606 ) . The bounty of such a patron has been slighted and slurred over by Roman Catholic ...
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... latter to his active intervention in their behalf , and has still greater benefits in store for them if they will only rush to his rescue , and hints at woes and plagues if they won't . To the Protestants who look upon the papacy as an ...
... latter to his active intervention in their behalf , and has still greater benefits in store for them if they will only rush to his rescue , and hints at woes and plagues if they won't . To the Protestants who look upon the papacy as an ...
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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.