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... itself a kingdom not of this world . The series of elderly single men who took new and high - sounding names when they began to reign , and who professed to manage the affairs of Heaven here below , exhibited every tendency and.
... itself a kingdom not of this world . The series of elderly single men who took new and high - sounding names when they began to reign , and who professed to manage the affairs of Heaven here below , exhibited every tendency and.
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... took the flesh to work out His Father's will on earth , when the heir of the first Cæsar had fully established the system of Julius , and gathered every civilised nation under one dominion . Every secular capacity , all the strength and ...
... took the flesh to work out His Father's will on earth , when the heir of the first Cæsar had fully established the system of Julius , and gathered every civilised nation under one dominion . Every secular capacity , all the strength and ...
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... 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 , 1. iv . c . 25. The Roman champion Wilfred , a great and troublesome churchman of that ...
... 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 , 1. iv . c . 25. The Roman champion Wilfred , a great and troublesome churchman of that ...
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... took this huge stride towards spiritual supremacy , it also made a great advance to- wards political independence and power . The conversion of Germany was contemporaneous with its revolt against the Eastern emperors , its alliance with ...
... took this huge stride towards spiritual supremacy , it also made a great advance to- wards political independence and power . The conversion of Germany was contemporaneous with its revolt against the Eastern emperors , its alliance with ...
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... took Ravenna from the Eastern emperor , and then led his Lombards against the rebellious Roman bishop . The pontiffs looked across the Alps , invoked the sword of the Franks to break the sword of C 2 II . ] EARLY STRUGGLES AND EXCESSES ...
... took Ravenna from the Eastern emperor , and then led his Lombards against the rebellious Roman bishop . The pontiffs looked across the Alps , invoked the sword of the Franks to break the sword of C 2 II . ] EARLY STRUGGLES AND EXCESSES ...
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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.