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... Noble Character , personal Greatness , and pervading Energy and Influence of the latter . His Obsequiousness and the Subserviency of his Successors to the Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the ...
... Noble Character , personal Greatness , and pervading Energy and Influence of the latter . His Obsequiousness and the Subserviency of his Successors to the Emperor Phocas rewarded by the first distinct Political Aggrandisement of the ...
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... Noble Character of Frederick.— His Estrangement from Adrian IV . and his Conflict with Alexander III . — Guelfs and Ghibelins . - Alexander and the Lombard League .-- The Papal Power in Alliance with that Italian Freedom with which it ...
... Noble Character of Frederick.— His Estrangement from Adrian IV . and his Conflict with Alexander III . — Guelfs and Ghibelins . - Alexander and the Lombard League .-- The Papal Power in Alliance with that Italian Freedom with which it ...
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... noble faculty of the soul found a divine quickening , a full expression and satisfaction in Christianity . The kingdom not of this world was set up in the world just as the kingdom of this world had attained its fullest , widest , and ...
... noble faculty of the soul found a divine quickening , a full expression and satisfaction in Christianity . The kingdom not of this world was set up in the world just as the kingdom of this world had attained its fullest , widest , and ...
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... noble and historically memorable ; mighty as a pillar both of church and state ; a faithful subject of the empire , and a true pastor ; a master of theological lore , and a master of the human heart ; influential in Christian councils ...
... noble and historically memorable ; mighty as a pillar both of church and state ; a faithful subject of the empire , and a true pastor ; a master of theological lore , and a master of the human heart ; influential in Christian councils ...
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... noble Theodosius ; from her first Teutonic captor , the valiant Alaric ; from her last illustrious champion , the patrician Ętius ; from her great Gothic ruler , the mighty and magnanimous Theodoric ; from his illustrious victim and her ...
... noble Theodosius ; from her first Teutonic captor , the valiant Alaric ; from her last illustrious champion , the patrician Ętius ; from her great Gothic ruler , the mighty and magnanimous Theodoric ; from his illustrious victim and her ...
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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.