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... secure the victory by dying the death of a martyr . That this was the determined resolution of the prelate seems obvious if , guided by the narratives of contempo- raneous writers , we examine the cathedral , and thread our way through ...
... secure the victory by dying the death of a martyr . That this was the determined resolution of the prelate seems obvious if , guided by the narratives of contempo- raneous writers , we examine the cathedral , and thread our way through ...
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... secure the gates and then hurried to the apartment of the archbishop , whom they earnestly entreated , without a moment's loss of time , to take refuge within the conse- crated walls . For a while he obstinately opposed their entreaties ...
... secure the gates and then hurried to the apartment of the archbishop , whom they earnestly entreated , without a moment's loss of time , to take refuge within the conse- crated walls . For a while he obstinately opposed their entreaties ...
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... secure rest after his death near the remains of Becket , was the nephew of the former , and the first Lancastrian king , Henry IV . The crime by which he raised himself to the throne , and the bitter fruits which sprang from that deed ...
... secure rest after his death near the remains of Becket , was the nephew of the former , and the first Lancastrian king , Henry IV . The crime by which he raised himself to the throne , and the bitter fruits which sprang from that deed ...
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... secure a better fate for all who were held in the harsh bonds of slavery . Christian mercy had been one of the virtues most stringently enforced by St. Benedict , who had enjoined upon the brethren to devote a large portion of their ...
... secure a better fate for all who were held in the harsh bonds of slavery . Christian mercy had been one of the virtues most stringently enforced by St. Benedict , who had enjoined upon the brethren to devote a large portion of their ...
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... secure safety from the rough hand of power , had , through the pertinacious adherence of the clergy to their ecclesiastical exemptions , gradually grown into an abuse by becoming the means of affording the ordinary crimi- nal illegal ...
... secure safety from the rough hand of power , had , through the pertinacious adherence of the clergy to their ecclesiastical exemptions , gradually grown into an abuse by becoming the means of affording the ordinary crimi- nal illegal ...
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