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... France , through Turgot : of Russia , through Catherine : into the Vatican through Clement XIV . Insomuch that philosophy insinuated itself even into close contact with kings : it enveloped them ; it subjugated them ; it dictated to ...
... France , through Turgot : of Russia , through Catherine : into the Vatican through Clement XIV . Insomuch that philosophy insinuated itself even into close contact with kings : it enveloped them ; it subjugated them ; it dictated to ...
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... France . Convents were spoliated with merciless violence , their goods dissi- pated , the precious contents of their libraries destroyed or scattered , the bones of the dead disturbed by official riflers of the graves . At the ...
... France . Convents were spoliated with merciless violence , their goods dissi- pated , the precious contents of their libraries destroyed or scattered , the bones of the dead disturbed by official riflers of the graves . At the ...
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... France ) . Occasionally popes might be found willing to barter away portions of the spiritual supremacy still left them , for support in their various schemes of temporal ambition : not unfrequently sovereigns ready , from motives of ...
... France ) . Occasionally popes might be found willing to barter away portions of the spiritual supremacy still left them , for support in their various schemes of temporal ambition : not unfrequently sovereigns ready , from motives of ...
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... France , where the Council of State possesses , and has even lately exercised , through the famous pro- cess of the appel comme d'abus , ' the right of compelling ecclesiastics to confer the sacraments , and perform other strictly ...
... France , where the Council of State possesses , and has even lately exercised , through the famous pro- cess of the appel comme d'abus , ' the right of compelling ecclesiastics to confer the sacraments , and perform other strictly ...
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... France , the Armies of the Faith of Naples and Spain , the Catholic and Repeal associations of Ireland , and many similar phenomena of more or less significance , only attested its farther development . There was a kind 40 JOSEPH II .
... France , the Armies of the Faith of Naples and Spain , the Catholic and Repeal associations of Ireland , and many similar phenomena of more or less significance , only attested its farther development . There was a kind 40 JOSEPH II .
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