...and even the right of private opinion, among their subjects. The contest concerning image- worship, from the prevalence of ecclesiastical ideas, became...vehement character of the sovereigns who filled the throne, attract the attention of those who love to dwell on the romantic facts of history. Unfortunately,...

...connected with the most splendid and important revolutions which have changed the state of the world." 1 The views of Byzantine history, unfolded in the following...vehement character of the sovereigns who filled the throne, attract the attention of those who love to dwell BOOK i. on the romantic facts of history....

...became the expression of this struggle. Its object was as much to consolidate the supremacy of tJie imperial authority, as to purify the practice of the...ecclesiastical as completely as of civil legislation." * It will be observed we are quoting from an anti-Papal, thoroughly Anglicanised author ; and yet here...

...It opens with the efforts by which Leo and the people of the empire saved Roman law and Christianity from the conquering Saracens. It embraces a long and...vehement character of the sovereigns who filled the throne, attract the attention of those who love to dwell on the romantic facts of history. Unfortunately,...

...and even the right of private opinion, among their subjects. The contest concerning image worship, from the prevalence of ecclesiastical ideas, became...period, and the vehement character of the sovereigns who rilled the throne, attract the attention of those who love to dwell on the romantic facts of history....

...and even the right of private opinion, among their subjects. The contest concerning image worship, from the prevalence of ecclesiastical ideas, became...vehement character of the sovereigns who filled the throne, attract the attention of those who love to dwell on the romantic facts of history. Unfortunately,...