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... side of the history of the period , I have endeavored to interweave and to set in their true relation the political , secular or more general elements , which had so powerful an influence in determining the course of events . The ...
... side of the history of the period , I have endeavored to interweave and to set in their true relation the political , secular or more general elements , which had so powerful an influence in determining the course of events . The ...
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... side of the history of this era . Of the more recent historians , there are two of whom I am bound to make special mention in this place . The first is Ranke , whose admirable series of works on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
... side of the history of this era . Of the more recent historians , there are two of whom I am bound to make special mention in this place . The first is Ranke , whose admirable series of works on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ...
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... sides in the strife . But these are mere incidents . To bring them forward as principal causes of a mighty his- toric change , is ... side of the Reformation is of great importance , both in the investigation of the causes and effects of ...
... sides in the strife . But these are mere incidents . To bring them forward as principal causes of a mighty his- toric change , is ... side of the Reformation is of great importance , both in the investigation of the causes and effects of ...
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... it a peculiar power over them . But all through the Middle Ages , whilst the outward , theocratic 1 La Réforme , p . 447 . 2 Ibid . , p . 434 . PROTESTANTISM HAS A POSITIVE SIDE . element that had been 8 THE REFORMATION .
... it a peculiar power over them . But all through the Middle Ages , whilst the outward , theocratic 1 La Réforme , p . 447 . 2 Ibid . , p . 434 . PROTESTANTISM HAS A POSITIVE SIDE . element that had been 8 THE REFORMATION .
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... side . It had something to assert as well as some- thing to deny . If it discarded one interpretation of Christianity , it espoused another . Old beliefs were sub- verted , not as an effect of a mere passion for revolt , but through the ...
... side . It had something to assert as well as some- thing to deny . If it discarded one interpretation of Christianity , it espoused another . Old beliefs were sub- verted , not as an effect of a mere passion for revolt , but through the ...
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Page 527 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 340 - To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Page 589 - Tytler, William. An inquiry, historical and critical, into the evidence against Mary, queen of Scots, and an examination of the histories of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Hume, with respect to that evidence.
Page 527 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 320 - Assembled in convocation, they were obliged to implore his pardon, and obtained it only in return for a large sum of money. In their petition, he was styled " the Protector and Supreme Head of the Church and Clergy of England...
Page 511 - Throughout Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor, while Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long...
Page 37 - Constantine's donation of his western dominions to Pope Silvester, which was current in the Middle Ages, accounted for all the evils of the Church, in the judgment of the enemies of the temporal power. There was the source of the pride and wealth of the popes. Dante adverts to it in the lines : — "Ah, Constantine of how much ill was mother, Not thy conversion, but that marriage-dower, Which the first wealthy father took from thee."1 And in another place, he refers to Constantine, who "Became a...
Page 436 - I keep Laud back from all place of rule and authority because I find he hath a restless spirit, and cannot see when matters are well, but loves to toss and change, and to bring things to a pitch of reformation floating in his own brain, which may endanger the steadfastness of that which is in a good pass, God be praised.
Page 333 - In the new Testament, he that is appointed to be a bishop or a priest, needeth no consecration by the scripture ; for election or appointing thereto is sufficient.
Page 511 - Whoever passes in Germany from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant principality, in Switzerland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant canton, in Ireland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant county, finds that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United States have left far behind them the Roman Catholics of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. The Roman Catholics of Lower Canada remain inert, while the whole...