| Lives - 1799 - 440 pages
...is represented M resigning to the popes, on betaking himself to his new eastern metropolis, the full and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west. Appealing to these documents as authentic in one of his letters to Charlemagne, Adrian founds on them... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West."9 This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...the seat and patrimony of St Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the Last ; and resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West f . This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of... | |
| Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the west So deep was the ignorance and credulity of the times, that the most absurd of fables was received with... | |
| Robert OXLAD - 1826 - 240 pages
...Popes*'---hy the latter of which it was pretended thnt Conttantme had made a grant to th« Church of the free and perpetual Sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West; a grant which the Popes represented as placing a solemn 'ohligation on the Princes of succeeding centuries... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 374 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the... | |
| Alexander Keith - 1832 - 392 pages
...recompensed. His. royal proselyte withdrew from his seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This fiction was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted of the... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1833 - 462 pages
...De Mon. b. iii. ; and Gibbon considers it altogether a forgery. " This memorable gift," says he, " was first introduced to the world by an epistle of...fictitious deed was transpierced by the pen of Laurentius \ r alla, an eloquent critic, and Roman patriot."—Decline and Fall, chap. 49. CANTO XX. 15. Compelled... | |
| Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 446 pages
...Emperor Constantine of the leprosy, as a reward for it, received a grant, to the successive Popes, of the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. Though all now admit this claim to have been a forgery, still, in that age of darkness, it effected... | |
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