From beginning to end it was a strife for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy. The liberty of the Church was the exemption of the clergy from law ; the vindication of their separate, exclusive, distinctive existence from the rest... Life of Thomas À Becket - Page 235by Henry Hart Milman - 1860 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bible - 1854 - 500 pages
...beginning to end it was a strife for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy. The liberty of the Church was the exemption of the...the long full correspondence there is some slight allusion to the miseries of the people in being deprived of the services of the exiled bishops and... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1854 - 504 pages
...beginning to end it was a strife for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy. The liberty of the Church was the exemption of the...the long full correspondence there is some slight allusion to the miseries of the people in being deprived of the services of the exiled bishops and... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - Papacy - 1854 - 578 pages
...for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy .e The liberty of the Church was tbe exemption of the clergy from law; the vindication...the long full correspondence there is some slight allusion to the miseries of the people in being deprived of the services of the exiled bishops and... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1861 - 566 pages
...beginning to end it was a strife for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy.1 The liberty of the Church was the exemption of the...the long full correspondence there is some slight allusion to the miseries of the people in being deprived of the services of the exiled bishops and... | |
| Andrew Miller - 1874 - 608 pages
...end," says Milman, " it was a strife for the authority, the immunities, the possessions of the clergy. The liberty of the church was the exemption of the...distinctive existence from the rest of mankind. It must be acknowledged by all, that if the King would have consented to allow the churchmen to despise... | |
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