 | 1892 - 340 pages
...power, the Pope being both a secular prince and a spiritual teacher, or, as Gibbon expresses it, " a Christian bishop invested with the • prerogatives of a temporal prince." The Pope claimed both swords, the civil and the ecclesiastical; a combination perhaps indicated in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 640 pages
...and the salvation of his soul. The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time a Christian...the prerogatives of a temporal prince ; the choice cf magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 pages
...splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first tune, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives...of taxes, and the wealth of the palace of Ravenna. In the dissolution of the Lombard kingdom, the inhabitants of the duchy of Spoleto ** sought a 68 Between... | |
 | Alfred Pearson - 1923 - 500 pages
...the virtues of his profession. The 'splendid donation was granted in supreme and abso'lute dominion, and the world beheld for the first time 'a Christian...taxes, and the 'wealth of the Palace of Ravenna." This "splendid donation" remained in the possession of Papacy from the 8th Century until 1870, when... | |
 | E. P. Thompson - 1994 - 284 pages
...established the temporal dominion of the Papacy, a donation endorsed by the forged 'donation' of Constantine: 'the world beheld for the first time a Christian bishop...invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince'. But if Blake could have found in every chapter of Gibbon evidence to illustrate the opposition of the... | |
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The splendid donation was granted in supreme and absolute dominion, and the world beheld, for the first time, a Christian bishop invested with the prerogatives of a temporal prince : the choice of magistrates, the exercise of justice, the imposition of... 
