Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay un- distinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument ...
... passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay un- distinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence . In the church of Santa Croce a monument ...
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... passed the Rhine , when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch , when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca . And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall , in the midst ...
... passed the Rhine , when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch , when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca . And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall , in the midst ...
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... passed away ; and then came the second great rising up of the human intellect against the spiritual domina- tion of Rome . During the two generations which followed the Albigensian crusade , the power of the Papacy had been at the ...
... passed away ; and then came the second great rising up of the human intellect against the spiritual domina- tion of Rome . During the two generations which followed the Albigensian crusade , the power of the Papacy had been at the ...
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... passed by . The civil power gave its strenuous support to the Church ; and the Church made some show of reforming itself . The Council of Constance put an end to the schism . The whole Catholic world was again united under a single ...
... passed by . The civil power gave its strenuous support to the Church ; and the Church made some show of reforming itself . The Council of Constance put an end to the schism . The whole Catholic world was again united under a single ...
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... passed through a training which had given to all its peculiarities a morbid intensity and energy . In his early life he had been the very prototype of the hero of Cervantes . The single study of the young Hidalgo had been chivalrous ...
... passed through a training which had given to all its peculiarities a morbid intensity and energy . In his early life he had been the very prototype of the hero of Cervantes . The single study of the young Hidalgo had been chivalrous ...
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