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... secure this inheritance to her grandchildren ; but their uncles , Clotaire and Childebert , coveted it , and determined upon their nephews ' destruction . For the purpose of obtaining possession of their persons , they undertook to get ...
... secure this inheritance to her grandchildren ; but their uncles , Clotaire and Childebert , coveted it , and determined upon their nephews ' destruction . For the purpose of obtaining possession of their persons , they undertook to get ...
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... secure the whole kingdom . His interest and his power procured for him at Rheims the almost unanimous consent of the nation ; but by the counsel and influence of some of the prin- cipal men , he afterwards gave his brother the kingdom ...
... secure the whole kingdom . His interest and his power procured for him at Rheims the almost unanimous consent of the nation ; but by the counsel and influence of some of the prin- cipal men , he afterwards gave his brother the kingdom ...
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Dagobert at length resolved , in order to gratify them , and secure their allegiance , to send Sige- bert , his eldest son , to Metz , with the title of King , which had the desired effect . After this , he procured his second son ...
Dagobert at length resolved , in order to gratify them , and secure their allegiance , to send Sige- bert , his eldest son , to Metz , with the title of King , which had the desired effect . After this , he procured his second son ...
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... secure the throne for his family , he created for himself a powerful party among the chiefs of Neustria , after which he invaded that kingdom , gained a battle at Testry , near Pé- ronne , and made Thierri prisoner . Pepin now added the ...
... secure the throne for his family , he created for himself a powerful party among the chiefs of Neustria , after which he invaded that kingdom , gained a battle at Testry , near Pé- ronne , and made Thierri prisoner . Pepin now added the ...
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... secure these acquisitions , recourse was had to a more daring fraud than any of the popes had yet perpetrated . A deed was produced , to the purport that the Greek exarchate was a donation from the first Christian emperor , Constantine ...
... secure these acquisitions , recourse was had to a more daring fraud than any of the popes had yet perpetrated . A deed was produced , to the purport that the Greek exarchate was a donation from the first Christian emperor , Constantine ...
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Page 447 - If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us...
Page 209 - And all our dainty terms for fratricide; Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues Like mere abstractions, empty sounds to which We join no feeling and attach no form! As if the soldier died without a wound; As if the fibres of this godlike frame Were gored without a pang...
Page 26 - Of lucre and ambition, and the truth With superstitions and traditions taint, Left only in those written records pure, Though not but by the Spirit understood.
Page 149 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 138 - Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 245 - There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
Page 96 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between. But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Page 98 - I lead in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance ; And I will fill their treasures.
Page 156 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 408 - Inherited, not purchased, nor our own. Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth.