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Page 583 - The authority of the priests operated in the darker ages as a salutary antidote: they prevented the total extinction of letters, mitigated the fierceness of the times, sheltered the poor and defenceless, and preserved or revived the peace and order of civil society.
Page 578 - Lord, for he hath told us that "where two or three are gathered together in his name, there will he be in the midst of them.
Page 427 - And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Page 469 - For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come ; nor might, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Page 583 - The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished, in these costly and perilous expeditions. Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave...
Page 530 - ... when men could neither speak nor listen more, the project of a nominal reign, shorn of all substantial authority, was adopted by the Diet; but (in modern phrase) with amendments obviously imposed by the representatives of the sacerdotal power. The Pope was to be invited to hold a Diet at Augsburg in the ensuing spring. He was meanwhile to decide whether Henry should be restored to the bosom of the Church. If so absolved, he was at once to resume all his beneficial rights.
Page 526 - ... his own, God himself had abandoned him. Yet all was not lost. He retained, at least, the hope of vengeance. On his hated adversary he might yet retaliate blow for blow, and malediction for malediction. On Easter-day, in the year 1076, surrounded by a small and anxious circle of Prelates, William the Archbishop of Utrecht ascended his archiepiscopal throne, and recited the sacred narrative which commemorates the rising of the Redeemer from the grave. But no strain of exulting gratitude followed....
Page 141 - Siqui-, dem cervicem usque ad occipitium radentes nudabant, capillos a facie usque ad os dimissos habentes, quos in utramque partem in frontis discrimine dividebant.. Vestimenta vero eis erant laxa et maxime linea, qualia Anglisaxones habere soient, hornata institis latioribus vario colore contextis.
Page 514 - Rome was visited by a dreadful tempest. Not even the full moon of Italy could penetrate the dense mass of superincumbent clouds. Darkness brooded over the land, and the trembling spectators believed that the day of final judgment was about to dawn. In this war of the elements, however, two processions were seen advancing to the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. At the head of one was the aged Hildebrancl, conducting a few priests to worship at the shrine of the Virgo Deipara.
Page 549 - It was the fourth day on which he had borne the humiliating garb of an affected penitence, and, in that sordid raiment, he drew near on his bare feet to the more than imperial Majesty of the Church, and prostrated himself, in more than servile deference, before the diminutive and emaciated old man, ' from the terrible glance of whose countenance,' we are told, ' the eye of every beholder recoiled as from the lightning.
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| Title | The History of the Papal States: From Their Origin to the Present Day, Volume 2 The History of the Papal States: From Their Origin to the Present Day, John Miley Volume 2 of The history of the Papal states, John Miley |
| Author | John Miley |
| Publisher | T. C. Newby, 1850 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Aug 2007 |
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