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... lived there , should not contain a single detail about the twenty - five years that Peter is made to have stayed there , nor even mention that he ever went thither - that the two glorious letters wherein the great apostle poured forth ...
... lived there , should not contain a single detail about the twenty - five years that Peter is made to have stayed there , nor even mention that he ever went thither - that the two glorious letters wherein the great apostle poured forth ...
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... lived again , and found a most vigorous demolisher in Laurence Valla , the secretary of Pope Eugenius IV . , born 1415 , died 1465 , and whose tractate on this matter , In Donationem Constantini Declamatio ( Opera , Basileæ , 1540 , pp ...
... lived again , and found a most vigorous demolisher in Laurence Valla , the secretary of Pope Eugenius IV . , born 1415 , died 1465 , and whose tractate on this matter , In Donationem Constantini Declamatio ( Opera , Basileæ , 1540 , pp ...
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... lived alike in the love and hatred of posterity . Upholders of a cause unpopular in their own day , but which , more than seven centuries afterwards , won a wide and signal triumph , they have , if overwhelmed with obloquy by the ...
... lived alike in the love and hatred of posterity . Upholders of a cause unpopular in their own day , but which , more than seven centuries afterwards , won a wide and signal triumph , they have , if overwhelmed with obloquy by the ...
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... lived union ; each nation , France , Ger- many , Italy , held the memory of Charlemagne in grateful veneration , and claimed a part and lot in his greatness and glory . The national hero both of France and Germany , he has become a hero ...
... lived union ; each nation , France , Ger- many , Italy , held the memory of Charlemagne in grateful veneration , and claimed a part and lot in his greatness and glory . The national hero both of France and Germany , he has become a hero ...
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... lived a thousand years and more . The French monarchy may fairly count from Clovis , about 1380 years . The English nation may begin from the Heptarchy , and reckon 1300 years ; Venice claimed 1300 ; the papacy , apart from the ...
... lived a thousand years and more . The French monarchy may fairly count from Clovis , about 1380 years . The English nation may begin from the Heptarchy , and reckon 1300 years ; Venice claimed 1300 ; the papacy , apart from the ...
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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.