 | Edwin Heycock - Bible - 1872 - 520 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the site and patrimony of St. Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. By this fiction, the Greek princes were convicted of the guilt of usurpation, and the revolt of Gregory... | |
 | Andrew Miller - 1874 - 648 pages
...healed of the leprosy by Pope Sylvester ; and so penetrated with gratitude was the Emperor, that he resigned to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West ; and resolved on founding a new capital for himself in the East. The object of Hadrian in forging... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1875 - 632 pages
...recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter ; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East ; and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West.69 This fiction' was productive of the most beneficial effects. The Greek princes were convicted... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1875 - 606 pages
...Christian emperors (Constantine) withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the east, and resigned...to the popes the free and perpetual sovereignty of Home, Italy, and the provinces of the west." Returning to Dr. Mosheim, that historian, in continuation... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - Church history - 1877 - 492 pages
...gratitude Constantine withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution to found a new capital in the East, and resigned to the popes...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This gross fiction was in those uncritical days generally accepted without opposition ; and it enabled... | |
 | Edward Lewes Cutts - Church history - 1890 - 482 pages
...of St. Peter, declared his resolution to found a new capital in the East, and resigned to the pope the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This gross fiction was in those uncritical days generally accepted without opposition ; and it enabled... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1891 - 1064 pages
...deliverance, the emperor relinquished ' the seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West.' Though professedly credited by Pope Adrian -and some of his successors, this monstrous fiction did... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1891 - 928 pages
...deliverance, the emperor relinquished " the seat and patrimony of St. Peter, declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East, and resigned...sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West." Though professedly credited by Pope Adrian and some of his successors, this monstrous fiction did not... | |
 | Marvin R. Vincent - Church history - 1896 - 506 pages
...church, was magnified into the claim that Constantine had granted to Pope Silvester and his successors the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy, and the provinces of the West. This preposterous claim, formulated about the middle of the eighth century, commanded the belief of... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - Imperialism - 1899 - 408 pages
...purporting to have been issued by Constantine I., which conferred upon the Latin See a complete title to the free and perpetual sovereignty of Rome, Italy and the Provinces of the West, the right to sway the sceptre, to wear the purple, and to command the homage due to Caesar. This imposture,... | |
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Silvester, the Roman bishop; and never was physician more gloriously recompensed. His royal proselyte withdrew from the seat and patrimony of St. Peter; declared his resolution of founding a new capital in the East; and resigned to the popes the free... 
