The Holy Roman EmpireMacmillan and Company, 1880 - 479 pages |
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ancient Augustus Austria authority Bavaria became bishop body Burgundy Cæsar called Carolingian Catholic century CHAP Charles Charles the Bald Christian Church civil claim clergy Confederation Conrad Constantine coronation crown despotism Diet dignity doctrine dominion dukes ecclesiastical election electors Emperor Europe existence faith feeling feudal France Frankish Franks Frederick French German Empire Greek Gregory Hapsburg Henry Henry III Henry the Fowler hereditary Hohenstaufen Holy Empire ideas imperial Italian Italy Julius Cæsar king kingdom less Lewis Lombard Maximilian mediæval medieval Middle Ages modern monarchy Napoleon never Odoacer Otto Otto III Papacy papal peace Peace of Westphalia Pertz Peter political pontiff Pope princes Prussia race Reformation reign religion religious Rhine Roman Empire Romanorum Rome Rudolf Saxon Schleswig seemed shew sovereign spiritual struggle successors temporal territories Teutonic theory throne tion unity
Popular passages
Page 92 - He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy, And shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, Throughout all generations.
Page 150 - To the emperor belongs the protection of the whole world," says Bishop Otto of Freysing. "The emperor is a living law upon earth." To Frederic^ at Roncaglia, the Archbishop of Milan speaks for the assembled magnates of Lombardy: " Do and ordain whatsoever thou wilt, thy will is law; as it is written: ' Quicquid principi placuit legis habet vigorem, cum populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem concesserit...
Page 208 - Krönungsmahle. Die Speisen trug der Pfalzgraf des Rheins, es schenkte der Böhme des perlenden Weins, und alle die Wähler, die sieben, wie der Sterne Chor um die Sonne sich stellt, umstanden geschäftig den Herrscher der Welt, die Würde des Amtes zu üben.
Page 51 - Jerusalem), with the earlier remains of our Saxon Edifices. Now the architecture of the Holy Land was Grecian, but greatly fallen from its ancient elegance. Our Saxon performance was indeed a bad copy of it ; and as much inferior to the works of St.
Page 158 - Emperor lies amid his knights in an enchanted sleep, waiting the hour when the ravens shall cease to hover round the peak, and the pear-tree blossom in the valley, to descend with his Crusaders and bring back to Germany the golden age of peace and strength and unity.
Page 331 - With unexpected legions bursts away, And sees defenceless realms receive his sway ; Short sway ! fair Austria spreads her mournful charms, The queen, the beauty, sets the world in arms ; From hill to hill the...
Page 43 - Thirdly, to do no violence nor treason towards the holy Church, or to widows or orphans or strangers, seeing that the lord emperor has been appointed, after the Lord and His saints, the protector and defender of all such.
Page 21 - Teia the last Ostrogothic king and the descent of Alboin the first Lombard that his power had been really effective. In the further provinces, Gaul, Spain, Britain, it was only a memory. But the idea of a Roman Empire as a necessary part of the world's order had not vanished: it had been admitted by those who seemed to be destroying it; it had been cherished by the Church ; it was still recalled by laws and customs ; it was dear to the subject populations, who fondly looked back to the days when...
Page 245 - Man's nature is twofold: corruptible and incorruptible. He has therefore two ends, active virtue on earth, and the enjoyment of the sight of God hereafter ; the one to be attained by practice conformed to the precepts of philosophy, the other by the theological virtues. Hence two guides are needed, the Pontiff and the Emperor, the latter of whom, in order that he may direct mankind in accordance with the teachings of philosophy to temporal blessedness, must preserve universal peace in the world.
Page 246 - Caesar, therefore, shew towards Peter the reverence wherewith a firstborn son honours his father, that, being illumined by the light of his paternal favour, he may the more excellently shine forth upon the whole world, to the rule of which he has been appointed by Him alone who is of all things, both spiritual and temporal, the King and Governor.