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... Once Rome , now Babylon faithless and fell , Through whom men weep so sore and groan so deep ; O forge of frauds , O dreadful prison - house , Where dies all good , where evil is born and bred , Thou hell on earth ! a marvel huge ' t ...
... Once Rome , now Babylon faithless and fell , Through whom men weep so sore and groan so deep ; O forge of frauds , O dreadful prison - house , Where dies all good , where evil is born and bred , Thou hell on earth ! a marvel huge ' t ...
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... once the Creature and the Master of the Roman Church . - Consecration of the Kingdom of this World and Desecration and Trans- formation into a Worldly Power of the Kingdom not of this World . - Personal and Political Greatness of ...
... once the Creature and the Master of the Roman Church . - Consecration of the Kingdom of this World and Desecration and Trans- formation into a Worldly Power of the Kingdom not of this World . - Personal and Political Greatness of ...
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... once with a sense of her earthly majesty , with a feeling of her spiritual power . Of this twofold impression the Roman bishop had the chief benefit . The foremost dweller in the city of the Cęsars , he grew every day greater and more ...
... once with a sense of her earthly majesty , with a feeling of her spiritual power . Of this twofold impression the Roman bishop had the chief benefit . The foremost dweller in the city of the Cęsars , he grew every day greater and more ...
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... once more horrible and contemptible than their murderer Phocas . This meet successor of Caligula , Nero , and Helio- gabalus , is memorable not only as a monster , but as a benefactor of the Roman See , and holds a somewhat conspicuous ...
... once more horrible and contemptible than their murderer Phocas . This meet successor of Caligula , Nero , and Helio- gabalus , is memorable not only as a monster , but as a benefactor of the Roman See , and holds a somewhat conspicuous ...
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... once he renewed the vow , and thrust upon others the submission professed by himself . He took the style and title of a legate of the Roman See , and combined the life of a missionary and the death of a martyr with the part of a 14 Beda ...
... once he renewed the vow , and thrust upon others the submission professed by himself . He took the style and title of a legate of the Roman See , and combined the life of a missionary and the death of a martyr with the part of a 14 Beda ...
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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.