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... held Adrian I. personally dear as well as politically near , and exchanged presents and good offices with Haroun al Rashid . He secured the respect and alliance , in spite of the jealousy , of those By- zantine Cæsars whose imperial ...
... held Adrian I. personally dear as well as politically near , and exchanged presents and good offices with Haroun al Rashid . He secured the respect and alliance , in spite of the jealousy , of those By- zantine Cæsars whose imperial ...
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... held the memory of Charlemagne in grateful veneration , and claimed a part and lot in his greatness and glory . The national hero both of France and Germany , he has become a hero of romance . Happy in a most loving and yet most ...
... held the memory of Charlemagne in grateful veneration , and claimed a part and lot in his greatness and glory . The national hero both of France and Germany , he has become a hero of romance . Happy in a most loving and yet most ...
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... held to be a proper and perfect emperor until crowned by the pope , so no one was held to be a proper and perfect pope until approved by the emperor.13 An energetic emperor asserted the imperial supremacy , an energetic pope asserted ...
... held to be a proper and perfect emperor until crowned by the pope , so no one was held to be a proper and perfect pope until approved by the emperor.13 An energetic emperor asserted the imperial supremacy , an energetic pope asserted ...
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... held grave disputations with the accomplished patriarch , who rebuked the lofty pretensions of the pontiff by a vigorous vindication of Greek freedom . In 867 , Nicholas died , and Michael was assassinated by his colleague Basil the ...
... held grave disputations with the accomplished patriarch , who rebuked the lofty pretensions of the pontiff by a vigorous vindication of Greek freedom . In 867 , Nicholas died , and Michael was assassinated by his colleague Basil the ...
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... held together . The empire got split up into kingdoms , each kingdom got split up into principalities , and each principality got split up into small fiefs . The wretchedness equalled the weakness . From North , East , and South , the ...
... held together . The empire got split up into kingdoms , each kingdom got split up into principalities , and each principality got split up into small fiefs . The wretchedness equalled the weakness . From North , East , and South , 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.