"Durably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with far more strength than before. The royal power was a continuation of the sovereignty inherited from Anglo-Saxon times, but, leaning on its continental resources, and supported by those who had taken part in the Conquest, it developed itself much more durably. The clergy of the land were far more closely and systematically bound to the Papacy; thus it had become more learned and more active. The one sword helped the other; just at this very time, the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke |
