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... Throne in 1073. - Steady Growth of the Papacy , even through this Period of Shame and Degradation , now to be succeeded by a Period of Worldly Glory and Greatness PAGE 18 BOOK III . THE TRIUMPHS OF THE POPEDOM . The Holy Roman Empire ...
... Throne in 1073. - Steady Growth of the Papacy , even through this Period of Shame and Degradation , now to be succeeded by a Period of Worldly Glory and Greatness PAGE 18 BOOK III . THE TRIUMPHS OF THE POPEDOM . The Holy Roman Empire ...
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... Throne of the World by Philip the Fair . - His bitter Quarrel and deadly Dealings with Boniface VIII . - Arrest and Death of the Pontiff and full Triumph of the French King.— The Greatness and Thoroughness of Philip's Work . - The ...
... Throne of the World by Philip the Fair . - His bitter Quarrel and deadly Dealings with Boniface VIII . - Arrest and Death of the Pontiff and full Triumph of the French King.— The Greatness and Thoroughness of Philip's Work . - The ...
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... throne of Constantinople ( 716 ) . The same valour , wisdom , and earnestness which he brought to the rescue of the sinking empire , rent by civil war and overwhelmed by Moham- medan invasion , he afterwards brought to the purification ...
... throne of Constantinople ( 716 ) . The same valour , wisdom , and earnestness which he brought to the rescue of the sinking empire , rent by civil war and overwhelmed by Moham- medan invasion , he afterwards brought to the purification ...
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... throne from its nominal occupant , the power- less Childeric , the last of the long - haired Merovingians , to its substantial possessor , the wise and valiant Pepin ( 751 ) , and Pope . Stephen II . crossed the Alps to crown and anoint ...
... throne from its nominal occupant , the power- less Childeric , the last of the long - haired Merovingians , to its substantial possessor , the wise and valiant Pepin ( 751 ) , and Pope . Stephen II . crossed the Alps to crown and anoint ...
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... throne to be- come a giver and taker of earthly thrones , to covet and to confer the kingdoms of this world , with all the power and glory of them , to yield to the allurements and assume the prerogatives of that very tempter whom the ...
... throne to be- come a giver and taker of earthly thrones , to covet and to confer the kingdoms of this world , with all the power and glory of them , to yield to the allurements and assume the prerogatives of that very tempter whom the ...
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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.