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Page vi
... stirred me to the production of this volume . I put it forth with the earnest hope and prayer that Italy may be rid ere long of that papacy which has wrought her such shame and evil , and that England may ever cleave to that ...
... stirred me to the production of this volume . I put it forth with the earnest hope and prayer that Italy may be rid ere long of that papacy which has wrought her such shame and evil , and that England may ever cleave to that ...
Page ix
... stirring up War in Italy . - Clinging of the Pontifical Absentees to Avignon in spite of the Importunity of Christendom for their Return to Rome . - Brief Visit of Urban V. and Removal of Gregory XI . to Rome . - His Death there in 1378 ...
... stirring up War in Italy . - Clinging of the Pontifical Absentees to Avignon in spite of the Importunity of Christendom for their Return to Rome . - Brief Visit of Urban V. and Removal of Gregory XI . to Rome . - His Death there in 1378 ...
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... stirred by small quarrels - was easily overcome and rapidly dismembered ; in seventy years a third of its domain was overrun and appropriated by Islam ; in Syria , Egypt , Africa , and Spain , the crescent replaced the cross . But the ...
... stirred by small quarrels - was easily overcome and rapidly dismembered ; in seventy years a third of its domain was overrun and appropriated by Islam ; in Syria , Egypt , Africa , and Spain , the crescent replaced the cross . But the ...
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... stirred up the children against the parent , and contributed not a little to the disorder of the empire of their own hallowing.12 The dominion of the West , got together and so firmly grasped by his mighty father , but so feebly and ...
... stirred up the children against the parent , and contributed not a little to the disorder of the empire of their own hallowing.12 The dominion of the West , got together and so firmly grasped by his mighty father , but so feebly and ...
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... stirred up Wycliffe and raised up Huss . The scarcely supe- rior atrocities of Alexander VI . had much to do with producing Luther and hastening the Reformation . But the fullness of time was not yet come ; men were in the dark ages ...
... stirred up Wycliffe and raised up Huss . The scarcely supe- rior atrocities of Alexander VI . had much to do with producing Luther and hastening the Reformation . But the fullness of time was not yet come ; men were in the dark ages ...
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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.