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Hugh Capet's speech traces how his line moved from modest beginnings into rapine by lies and force and then into further predatory expansion.
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Lies
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...worth much but did no wrong. There its rapine began with lies and force and then it ceased that it might make mence, Pontieux..."
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The quoted passage says false preaching and indulgence-selling exploit worldly credulity and replace gospel truth with lies and comic performance.
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"...worth much but did no wrong. There its rapine began with lies and force and then it ceased that it might make mence, Pontieux..."
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"...that cow that if people saw it they would recognize as lies the pardons in which they confide pardons through which"
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"the world's credulity increases so that people throng to every indulgence backed by no authority and no authority and this allows the antonines to..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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