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Page ix
... Persecutors and as Sinners . - Viciousness of the Papal Court . - Avignon the Abode of Peace in the midst of War . - The Pontiffs mainly meritorious as Peace - makers , yet ever stirring up War in Italy . - Clinging of the Pontifical ...
... Persecutors and as Sinners . - Viciousness of the Papal Court . - Avignon the Abode of Peace in the midst of War . - The Pontiffs mainly meritorious as Peace - makers , yet ever stirring up War in Italy . - Clinging of the Pontifical ...
Page x
... Persecutor of the Reformation.- Struggle between the Statesman and the Bigot in him . - His Conflict with German Protestantism at first victorious but finally unsuccessful . - His Abdication a Vic- tory of the Reformation . - Paul III ...
... Persecutor of the Reformation.- Struggle between the Statesman and the Bigot in him . - His Conflict with German Protestantism at first victorious but finally unsuccessful . - His Abdication a Vic- tory of the Reformation . - Paul III ...
Page xii
... persecuting Poland a Blow to the Roman Church . - Attractive Character of Pius VI . - His not unhappy Relations with the Age . - His Dealings with Reforming Princes , with Joseph II . and Leopold of Tuscany . - Position of the Popedom ...
... persecuting Poland a Blow to the Roman Church . - Attractive Character of Pius VI . - His not unhappy Relations with the Age . - His Dealings with Reforming Princes , with Joseph II . and Leopold of Tuscany . - Position of the Popedom ...
Page 54
... persecutor was his mortal foe , zeal- ously upheld his cause . But Christendom for the most part re- mained faithful to Gregory ; the swords of the invincible Nor- mans were drawn in his behalf ; the valiant Robert Guiscard hastened to ...
... persecutor was his mortal foe , zeal- ously upheld his cause . But Christendom for the most part re- mained faithful to Gregory ; the swords of the invincible Nor- mans were drawn in his behalf ; the valiant Robert Guiscard hastened to ...
Page 82
... persecuting Byzantine em- perors . Two centuries later , the Bohemian Hussites defied the combined strength of empire and popedom , and marched from victory to victory . The English Puritans never met their match on the battle - field ...
... persecuting Byzantine em- perors . Two centuries later , the Bohemian Hussites defied the combined strength of empire and popedom , and marched from victory to victory . The English Puritans never met their match on the battle - field ...
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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.