 ... historical event and solemn consecration. It is preceded by fasting and seclusion, and takes place in the most sacred church in Russia ; the Emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture a passive recipient, but himself the principal...  'We have no king but Cæsar', a sermon - Page 9de Charles Warner - 1865Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1862 - 582 pages
...Emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene; himself reciting...of the Orthodox faith ; himself alone on his knees, amidst the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the Empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Charles Brandon Boynton - 1864 - 586 pages
...emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture, a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene; himself reciting...of the orthodox faith ; himself alone on his knees, amid the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Charles Brandon Boynton - 1866 - 534 pages
...emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture, a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene ; himself...of the orthodox faith ; himself alone on his knees, amid the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1867 - 478 pages
...Emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene ; himself...of the Orthodox faith ; himself alone on his knees, amidst the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the Empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Sir R. Arthur Arnold - 1877 - 358 pages
...Emperor, not as in the corresponding forms of European investiture, a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene ; himself...the Orthodox faith ; himself, alone on his knees, amidst the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the Empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Westminster Hospital - 1899 - 412 pages
...countries, but is, as the late Dean Stanley tells us in his History of the Eastern Church, himself the principal figure in the whole scene ; himself...of the Orthodox Faith ; himself alone on his knees, amidst the assembled multitude, offering up the prayer of intercession for the Empire ; himself placing... | |
 | William Jones - 1902 - 712 pages
...emperor not, as in the corresponding forms of European investiture, a passive recipient, but himself the principal figure in the whole scene ; himself...of the orthodox faith ; himself alone on his knees, amidst the assembled multitude, offering np the prayer of intercession for the empire ; himself placing... | |
 | Dennis Eugene Engleman - 1995 - 304 pages
...historical occasion and solemn consecration. It was preceded by fasting and seclusion . . . [the emperor] reciting aloud the confession of the Orthodox Faith;...knees, offering up the prayer of intercession for the Empire."4 The Christian monarchy nurtured a Christian society through a hierarchical authority based... | |
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