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... Success . - Deep Darkness of the Time brightened for a Moment by the Expectation of Christ's Coming at the End of the Tenth Century . - Continual Wickedness of the Popes . - Appearance of another Imperial Master and Reformer of the ...
... Success . - Deep Darkness of the Time brightened for a Moment by the Expectation of Christ's Coming at the End of the Tenth Century . - Continual Wickedness of the Popes . - Appearance of another Imperial Master and Reformer of the ...
Page x
... successful as Italian Princes . - End of the Dark Ages . - The Time a Period of great Expansion and immense Changes . - Formation of great Monarchies . - Ottoman Capture of Con- stantinople , Invention of Printing , Revival of Learning ...
... successful as Italian Princes . - End of the Dark Ages . - The Time a Period of great Expansion and immense Changes . - Formation of great Monarchies . - Ottoman Capture of Con- stantinople , Invention of Printing , Revival of Learning ...
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... successes and its worldly reverses , of its worldly mistakes and its worldly transgressions , distinguishes the dynasty of the popes from all undisguised secular dynasties . Supreme and concentrated worldliness stands forth as the one ...
... successes and its worldly reverses , of its worldly mistakes and its worldly transgressions , distinguishes the dynasty of the popes from all undisguised secular dynasties . Supreme and concentrated worldliness stands forth as the one ...
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... successful rebels against the imperial iconoclasts of Constantinople . While defending one corruption they introduced another ; idolatrous pontiffs became secular princes . Degenerate Christianity was preyed upon by a swarm of ...
... successful rebels against the imperial iconoclasts of Constantinople . While defending one corruption they introduced another ; idolatrous pontiffs became secular princes . Degenerate Christianity was preyed upon by a swarm of ...
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... successful prince ; and Conrad's still more vigorous and victorious son , Henry III . , undertook the cleansing of the polluted papacy . In 1046 he crossed the Alps , deposed the three rival pontiffs , exacted an oath from the Roman ...
... successful prince ; and Conrad's still more vigorous and victorious son , Henry III . , undertook the cleansing of the polluted papacy . In 1046 he crossed the Alps , deposed the three rival pontiffs , exacted an oath from the Roman ...
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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.