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... latter . When Byzantium became Constantinople , when a Greek city became the capital of the Eastern Empire , while Rome sank from the metropolis of the world into the metropolis of the West , Eastern and Western Christianity became ...
... latter . When Byzantium became Constantinople , when a Greek city became the capital of the Eastern Empire , while Rome sank from the metropolis of the world into the metropolis of the West , Eastern and Western Christianity became ...
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... latter enthroned , for political reasons , by Michael and his guardian Bardas - disputed as rival patriarchs the see of Constantinople ( 857 ) . The Greek Church , while acknowledging the official precedency , had never recognised the ...
... latter enthroned , for political reasons , by Michael and his guardian Bardas - disputed as rival patriarchs the see of Constantinople ( 857 ) . The Greek Church , while acknowledging the official precedency , had never recognised the ...
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... latter ages by the growing might and majesty of the Empire of all the Russias . Not long after the death of the aspiring and enterprising Nicholas , the popedom fell into a plight by no means favourable to aggression either in the East ...
... latter ages by the growing might and majesty of the Empire of all the Russias . Not long after the death of the aspiring and enterprising Nicholas , the popedom fell into a plight by no means favourable to aggression either in the East ...
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... latter the devoted handmaid : the harlot used the popedom for her lust ; the popedom used the devotee for its ambition . Marozia had a papal paramour and a papal posterity . The bastard whom she bore to Pope Sergius became Pope John XI ...
... latter the devoted handmaid : the harlot used the popedom for her lust ; the popedom used the devotee for its ambition . Marozia had a papal paramour and a papal posterity . The bastard whom she bore to Pope Sergius became Pope John XI ...
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... latter ages has expanded into one of the great powers of the world , and which , on August 25 , 1862 , celebrated with no unbecoming pride and no unmeaning pomp its thou- sandth birthday.25 The Poles took for themselves a chief in Piast ...
... latter ages has expanded into one of the great powers of the world , and which , on August 25 , 1862 , celebrated with no unbecoming pride and no unmeaning pomp its thou- sandth birthday.25 The Poles took for themselves a chief in Piast ...
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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.