The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution, Volume 2Bell, 1886 |
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... wished to dissipate . His first two volumes are wholly taken up by researches into the traces of the Roman law from the fifth to the twelfth century , and in proving , by recovering its history , that it had never ceased to exist . The ...
... wished to dissipate . His first two volumes are wholly taken up by researches into the traces of the Roman law from the fifth to the twelfth century , and in proving , by recovering its history , that it had never ceased to exist . The ...
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... wished to realize . What sense did men , at this period , attach to these words , and what progress had they already made in this path ? What was actually , in minds and in facts , this spiri- tual society , the object of their ambition ...
... wished to realize . What sense did men , at this period , attach to these words , and what progress had they already made in this path ? What was actually , in minds and in facts , this spiri- tual society , the object of their ambition ...
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... wished to mark his disapprobation , perhaps even attempt some resistance ; he thus terminated his letter : " I , who say these things to my lords , what am I , but dust or an earth - worm ? Still , as I think that this law goes against ...
... wished to mark his disapprobation , perhaps even attempt some resistance ; he thus terminated his letter : " I , who say these things to my lords , what am I , but dust or an earth - worm ? Still , as I think that this law goes against ...
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... wished to participate in the immunities of the church ; she received them into her ranks in the same way as she opened her temples to the proscribed ; she thereby gained an extension of her credit and her forces . But the religious ...
... wished to participate in the immunities of the church ; she received them into her ranks in the same way as she opened her temples to the proscribed ; she thereby gained an extension of her credit and her forces . But the religious ...
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... wished to found churches beyond their diocese , whether in their native town , in the midst of some domain , or from some other motive . Their right to choose the priest called to perform the duties was un- hesitatingly recognised ...
... wished to found churches beyond their diocese , whether in their native town , in the midst of some domain , or from some other motive . Their right to choose the priest called to perform the duties was un- hesitatingly recognised ...
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