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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 2 0 Browse Search
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Italy. The pope of the day, who was his dependent and his beneficiary, made to him the sign of adora- Chap. II.} tion. Dollinger, Das Kaiserthum Karls des Grossen und seiner Nachfolger in Munchener Historisches Jahrbuch fur 1865, 364. The old Roman emperor was the highest pontiff: with the charge of universal monarchy, Charlemagne, who held the keys of the grave of St. Peter, took to himself the supreme direction of the church. Von Sybel, Deutsche Nation und das Kaiserreich, 60. Villemain, Histoire de Gregoire VII., un maitre qui dominai't également et laeglise et le monde, i. 140. Orthodox Christendom saw in this new Roman empire the eternal ordinance of God which was to endure to the end of time, so that every prophecy might be fulfilled and Christ become the lord of the whole earth. Leo the Third recognised in him the sovereignty over every temporal authority; but the line of the emperors was hardly acknowledged at Rome to be by a fixed rule entitled evermore to unq