Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 147
nited kingdom if it had been com-pleted. But it never was. I think this scheme of thecanal helps us to understand better than anything elsehe did in his life what was the dream of Charlemagne.His dream was, I think, the union of all the countrieshe had conquered — of all the heathen tribes that… … Chablemagne Crowned Emperor of Rome. This dream must have seemed to be realized when, onChristmas-day of the year 800, in a church in Eome inwhich the sacred day was being celebrated with allpomp and magnificence, the Pope brought forth a crownand placed it on the head of Charlemagne, hailing himas…
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