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For thirty- one years that monarch had persevered in his policy of subjugating his restless foes, and now he had his reward. Slowly but steadily the wave of conquest had extended into the unknown Saxon world, from the Drimel to the Lippe, from the Weser to the Elbe, and thence to the sea, the limit of the Saxon dominion. Peace and rebellion, the reception of baptism and the burning of Christian churches, had 1 " VitaS. Willehadi, " cap. 9. a "Vita S. Willehadi, " Pertz, vol. Ii. P. 384. LIUDGER.... 149 marked the successive alternations of the bloody strife, and at last, wearied with the ceaseless din of war, the Saxons were fain to acknowledge that civili- zation had conquered. Cruel as may have been some of the expedients to which the victor resorted in gaining his end, he followed up his conquests by measures which command our respect. His eight bishoprics^ of Osnaburg, Bremen, Miin- ster, Minden, Halberstadt, Paderborn, Verden, and Hildesheim, with many monasteries, which he richly endowed, were so many great religious colonies, whence the blessings of Christianity and civilization spread abroad in ever-widening circles.
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