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... Monarch of Europe its foremost Champion . - Philip II . far above Elizabeth both in Power and Zeal . - Intestine Divisions of Protestantism . - The Council of Trent .-- Its singular Destiny and curious Adventurers . - Its Vigour ...
... Monarch of Europe its foremost Champion . - Philip II . far above Elizabeth both in Power and Zeal . - Intestine Divisions of Protestantism . - The Council of Trent .-- Its singular Destiny and curious Adventurers . - Its Vigour ...
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... monarchs came on pilgrimage from the far West , and more than one English king received baptism or assumed the cowl at Rome.15 As the Roman bishops had taken no harm from the curtail- ment of Christendom by the Arabs towards the East ...
... monarchs came on pilgrimage from the far West , and more than one English king received baptism or assumed the cowl at Rome.15 As the Roman bishops had taken no harm from the curtail- ment of Christendom by the Arabs towards the East ...
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... monarch ( 753 ) . The grateful Carolingian king crossed the Alps for the rescue of Rome and her bishop , vanquished the Lombards , and bestowed upon Stephen much of the territory comprised in the late States of the Church ( 755 ) . Thus ...
... monarch ( 753 ) . The grateful Carolingian king crossed the Alps for the rescue of Rome and her bishop , vanquished the Lombards , and bestowed upon Stephen much of the territory comprised in the late States of the Church ( 755 ) . Thus ...
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... monarch and the mighty man of the middle ages . The greatness before which all his contemporaries bowed haunted the imagination of after ages , and has cleaved insepara- bly to the name of Charlemagne . The Germans who overthrew the ...
... monarch and the mighty man of the middle ages . The greatness before which all his contemporaries bowed haunted the imagination of after ages , and has cleaved insepara- bly to the name of Charlemagne . The Germans who overthrew the ...
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... monarch , patriot , and Christian , whom his friend Eginhard has so vividly set forth and so faithfully preserved , was singularly enough appropriated and metamorphosed by the medieval poets and romancers.6 Allured by the dim prominence ...
... monarch , patriot , and Christian , whom his friend Eginhard has so vividly set forth and so faithfully preserved , was singularly enough appropriated and metamorphosed by the medieval poets and romancers.6 Allured by the dim prominence ...
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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.