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... spiritual power . Of this twofold impression the Roman bishop had the chief benefit . The foremost dweller in the city of the Cæsars , he grew every day greater and more awful in the eyes of that shaken , smitten , and reeling world ...
... spiritual power . Of this twofold impression the Roman bishop had the chief benefit . The foremost dweller in the city of the Cæsars , he grew every day greater and more awful in the eyes of that shaken , smitten , and reeling world ...
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A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. The spiritual popedom fetches its origin from a residence and a presidency of which there is not the slightest contemporary evidence . The see of Peter leads on the long array of fictions and ...
A Historical Essay Thomas Hornblower Gill. The spiritual popedom fetches its origin from a residence and a presidency of which there is not the slightest contemporary evidence . The see of Peter leads on the long array of fictions and ...
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... spiritual allurement . Oppressed by the fierce familiarity of their Lombard neighbours , they rejoiced in the reverence of the distant Franks , and in the still devouter veneration of the yet remoter Saxons . Many monarchs came on ...
... spiritual allurement . Oppressed by the fierce familiarity of their Lombard neighbours , they rejoiced in the reverence of the distant Franks , and in the still devouter veneration of the yet remoter Saxons . Many monarchs came on ...
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... 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 the kings of France , and its ...
... 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 the kings of France , and its ...
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... spiritual principle , opponents of a deep - rooted and potent popular passion , they have lived alike in the love and hatred of posterity . Upholders of a cause unpopular in their own day , but which , more than seven centuries ...
... spiritual principle , opponents of a deep - rooted and potent popular passion , they have lived alike in the love and hatred of posterity . Upholders of a cause unpopular in their own day , but which , more than seven centuries ...
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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.