General History Briefly Sketched Upon Scriptural Principles
General History Briefly Sketched Upon Scriptural Principles
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The martial spirit was kept up by it, effeminacy was prevented, and a barrier was op- posed to the perfecting of papal domination. As long as temporal princes had such supporters, the papacy could not fully grasp the empire of the world ; and though it exercised great power and authority over men's minds, by the influence of its principles and of its spiritual terrors, yet it y2 246 HOUSE OF HOHENSTAUFEN.
dared not touch with violent hands those tem- poral possessions, which natural men value m...ore than freedom of thought, or than liberty of con- science. It is true, that even in the chivalrous as in the other dominant ranks of Germany and Italy, as well as amonjj learned men themselves, (such as Bernard of Clairvaux and Arnold of Brescia, ) there was clearly enough manifested the fierce opposition between spiritual and temporal power, and that there were spiritual as well as temporal orders of knighthood ; still, however, the clergy were never disposed to consign them- selves as mere passive instruments to the papal plans.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The martial spirit was kept up by it, effeminacy was prevented, and a barrier was op- posed to the perfecting of papal domination. As long as temporal princes had such supporters, the papacy could not fully grasp the empire of the world ; and though it exercised great power and authority over men's minds, by the influence of its principles and of its spiritual terrors, yet it y2 246 HOUSE OF HOHENSTAUFEN.
dared not touch with violent hands those tem- poral possessions, which natural men value m...ore than freedom of thought, or than liberty of con- science. It is true, that even in the chivalrous as in the other dominant ranks of Germany and Italy, as well as amonjj learned men themselves, (such as Bernard of Clairvaux and Arnold of Brescia, ) there was clearly enough manifested the fierce opposition between spiritual and temporal power, and that there were spiritual as well as temporal orders of knighthood ; still, however, the clergy were never disposed to consign them- selves as mere passive instruments to the papal plans.
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