 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff.119 The Imperial dignity of Charlemagne was announced to Transacthe East by the alteration... | |
 | William Girdlestone - 1820 - 270 pages
...he says, speaking of the emperor, " but that he might not legally " assume the titles of Emperor and Augustus, " till he had received the crown from the hands " of the Roman pontifFf." And speaking of the Pope, he says, " But the election was imperfect, " nor could the... | |
 | Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 pages
...subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff." Gibb. ix. xlix. nn 55,88, 92, 117, H9. Thus had the popes power to give life to the... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 336 pages
...introduced by force and ratified by time, " that he might nut legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus till he had received the crown FROM THE HANDS OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF." " The successors of Charlemagne and Otho were content with the humble names of kings'... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison - 1849 - 494 pages
...Butler, pp. 4—12. the popes in Italy should be pin," Mr. Butler observes, 5 Vid. Note, Appendix. till he had received the crown from the hands of the...was often obliged to purchase it by great sacrifices 7 ." " The popes soon advanced a still higher claim. In virtue of an authority which they pretended... | |
 | George Augustus F. Wilks - 1851 - 414 pages
...that instant, the kingdom of Italy and Rome. 2. He might not legally assume the title of Emperor and Augustus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman Pontiff. 8 " Sacros ordines in equorum stabulo contulit, multiplici adulterio et incestu se polluit... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff.119 The imperial dignity of Charlemagne was announced to the East by the alteration of... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1859 - 520 pages
...subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff." In connexion with these quotations from Mr. Gibbon, w« may add, from Sigonius, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pages
...subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augus>tus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff.119 The Imperial dignity of Charlemagne was announced to the East by the alteration of... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - 1877 - 492 pages
...the subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome ; but he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman pontiff. He was assumed to succeed to all the rights of the Carlovingian empire. About the eleventh... | |
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That the prince, who was elected in the German diet, acquired from that instant the subject kingdoms of Italy and Rome. II. But that he might not legally assume the titles of emperor and Augustus, till he had received the crown from the hands of the Roman... 
