 Nor was the supremacy of the emperor confined to Germany alone: the hereditary monarchs of Europe confessed the preeminence of his rank and dignity: he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West: 166 to...  Mémoires d'un homme enfermé comme aliéné - Page 192by Guillaume Monod - 1838 - 229 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West : 1s3 to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated;...assembling councils. The oracle of the civil law, the learued Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles the fourth ; and his school resounded with the doctrine,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 pages
...; he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West:p to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated;...creating kings and assembling councils. The oracle of civil law, the learned Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles IV; and his school resounded with the doctrine,... | |
 | Alfred Addis - 1830 - 602 pages
...pp. 191. 193. 194. Concerning the dignity of the German Emperors, says Gibbon, Chap. xlix. p. 216. " Nor was the supremacy of the Emperor confined to Germany...prerogative of creating kings and assembling councils." Michael 11. . . Pascal I 821 Eugenius II. . . Valentine .... 829 Gregory IV. .. 842 Sergius II 817... | |
 | Frederic Fysh - 1837 - 622 pages
...state of weakness and poverty, but more ostentatious than ever. ' The supremacy of the Emperor was not confined to Germany alone : the hereditary monarchs...creating kings and assembling councils. The oracle of civil law, the learned Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles IV. ; and his school resounded with the... | |
 | Philip Gell - 1854 - 392 pages
...hereditary monarchs of Europe confessed the pre-eminence of his rank and dignity. He was the first of Christian princes, the temporal head of the great...prerogative of creating kings and assembling councils."' William of Holland, it (the imperial authority) dwindled down to nothing. Rodolph of Hapsburg . . .... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pages
...he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West :li3 to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated...assembling councils. The oracle of the civil law, the learned Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles the Fourth ; and his school resounded with the doctrine... | |
 | Physician, John Hoskyns - 1863 - 232 pages
...extinct.* At this very moment (1850) * The supremacy of the German Emperor was not confined to German;/ alone: the hereditary monarchs of Europe confessed...West. To his person the " title of Majesty was long appropriated."—Gibbon's Roman Empire. vol. 9: chap. 40: page 217. the Emperor of Germany (the successor... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1871 - 640 pages
...never been blamed by any reader of taste and curiosity. '** Sec the whole ceremony in Struvius, p. 629 of his rank and dignity : he was the first of the...assembling councils. The oracle of the civil law, the learned Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles the Fourth ; and his school resounded with the doctrine,... | |
 | Edwin Heycock - 1872 - 520 pages
...closed by the great huntsman, who introduced a boar and a stag with a loud chorus of horns and hounds. Nor was the supremacy of the emperor confined to Germany...prerogative of creating kings and assembling councils." Not only did the coronation of the emperor by the pope enable this image of the ancient Ccesars to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pages
...he was the first of the Christian princes, the temporal head of the great republic of the West : 153 to his person the title of majesty was long appropriated...assembling councils. The oracle of the civil law, the learned Bartolus, was a pensioner of Charles the Fourth ; and his school resounded with the doctrine,... | |
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