An Introduction to a Course of German Literature: In Lectures to the Students of the University of LondonJ. Taylor, 1830 - 157 pages |
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... emperor gave to the bishops of Rome a temporal arm , with which , at a later period , the spiritual thunders were most effectually wielded . The 66 . empire of Charlemagne owed its speedy dissolution to the discordant 36 INTRODUCTION TO ...
... emperor gave to the bishops of Rome a temporal arm , with which , at a later period , the spiritual thunders were most effectually wielded . The 66 . empire of Charlemagne owed its speedy dissolution to the discordant 36 INTRODUCTION TO ...
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... emperor , became an instrument of incal- culable power . The knights were opposed to the civilians , and ready to forward the ambitious views of the ruling monarch , and at the same time to gratify that passion for military adventure ...
... emperor , became an instrument of incal- culable power . The knights were opposed to the civilians , and ready to forward the ambitious views of the ruling monarch , and at the same time to gratify that passion for military adventure ...
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... nature has effected . For neither worldly might , nor emperor , nor king , subdued the pope ; but that eternal tendency of the human mind towards per- fection , by which the hierarchy first rose , and 40 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
... nature has effected . For neither worldly might , nor emperor , nor king , subdued the pope ; but that eternal tendency of the human mind towards per- fection , by which the hierarchy first rose , and 40 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
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... emperor Henry IV . ( at the close of the eleventh century ) had been suppressed by the hierarchy ; this latter body opened to European Christendom , at that period impatient for action , a field , wherein religious and poetical activity ...
... emperor Henry IV . ( at the close of the eleventh century ) had been suppressed by the hierarchy ; this latter body opened to European Christendom , at that period impatient for action , a field , wherein religious and poetical activity ...
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... emperor . A sort of Roman universal empire would have established itself ; and to this , as we have seen , the spirit of Christianity was diametrically opposed . The crusades made a salutary diversion in favour of the hierarchy , and ...
... emperor . A sort of Roman universal empire would have established itself ; and to this , as we have seen , the spirit of Christianity was diametrically opposed . The crusades made a salutary diversion in favour of the hierarchy , and ...
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Page 154 - Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein' gute Wehr und Waffen, Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not, Die uns jetzt hat betroffen. Der alt' böse Feind Mit Ernst er's jetzt meint; Groß' Macht und viel List Sein' grausam Rüstung ist, Auf Erd
Page 59 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.