The Holy Roman Empire

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Pagina 245 - Credo equidem: vivos ducent de marmore vultus; Orabunt causas melius, coelique meatus Describent radio, et surgentia sidera dicent: Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; Hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.' Finally, the right of war asserted, Christ's birth, and death under Pilate, ratified their government. For Christian doctrine requires that the procurator should have been a lawful judge
Pagina 328 - The bold Bavarian, in a luckless hour, Tries the dread summits of Caesarean power; With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway. . . . The baffled prince in honour's flattering bloom Of hasty greatness finds the fatal doom; His foes' derision and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame.' JOHNSON, Vanity of Human Wishes.
Pagina xviii - (Felix V Anti-pope). Nicholas V. Calixtus IV. Pius II. Paul II. Sixtus IV. Innocent VIII. Alexander VI. Pius III. Julius II. Leo X. Hadrian VI. Clement VII. Paul III. Julius III. Marcellus II. P.aul IV. Pius IV. Pius V. Gregory XIII. Sixtus V. Urban VII. Gregory XIV. Innocent IX. Clement VIII. Leo XI. Paul V. Gregory XV. Urban VIII.
Pagina 27 - In that shout, echoed by the Franks without, was pronounced the union, so long in preparation, so mighty in its consequences, of the Roman and the Teuton, of the memories and the civilization of the South with the fresh energy of the North, and from that moment modern history begins. the
Pagina xiv - Valentinus. Gregory IV. Sergius II. Leo IV. Benedict III. (Anastasius, Anti.pope). Nicholas I. Hadrian II. John VIII. Martin II. Hadrian III. Stephen V. Formosus. Boniface VI. Stephen VI. Romanus. Theodore II. John IX. Benedict IV. Leo V. Christopher. Sergius III. Anastasius III. Lando. John X. Leo VI.
Pagina 328 - The baffled prince in honour's flattering bloom Of hasty greatness finds the fatal doom; His foes' derision and his subjects' blame, And steals to death from anguish and from shame.
Pagina 52 - This basilica was built upon the model of the church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and as it was the first church of any size that had been erected in those regions for centuries past, it excited extraordinary interest among the Franks and Gauls. In many of its features it greatly resembles the beautiful church of
Pagina 245 - patrocinium orbis terrarum.' Nature herself, the fountain of all right, had, by their geographical position and by the gift of a genius so vigorous, marked them out for universal dominion:— •Excudent alii spirantia mollius sera, Credo equidem: vivos ducent de marmore vultus; Orabunt causas melius,
Pagina xxi - centre and head of Christendom, exercising over the minds of men an influence such as its material strength could never have commanded. It is of this influence and of the causes that gave it power rather than of the external history of the Empire, that the following pages are designed to treat. That history is indeed full of interest
Pagina 151 - at Roncaglia, the archbishop of Milan speaks for the assembled magnates of Lombardy: ' Do and ordain whatsoever thou wilt, thy will is law; as it is written, " Quicquid principi placuit legis habet vigorem, cum populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem concesserit

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