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1981 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 485.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… into the cunningly contrived plots and the wide-spread combinations then forming among the Popish princes of the age-a race of rulers who will remain renowned …
1982 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 494.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Guise, the regent of the kingdom, was removed by death, and the government passed into the hands of the Reformers. The way was now fully open for the establishment …
1983 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 498.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Linlithgow. The infant had seen the light but a few days when, her father dying, she succeeded to the crown. While only a girl of six years of age, Mary Stuart was …
1984 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 517.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the gates of the ancient world, and admitted the student to the philosophy of the Greek sages and the diviner knowledge of the Hebrew prophets. The Jesuits …
1985 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 520.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
In 1578, James VI, now twelve years of age, took the reins of government into his own hand. His preceptor, the illustrious Buchanan, had labored to inspire him with a taste for learning-the capacity he could not give him
1986 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 550.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by the Parliament for the settling of the government and Liturgy of the Church of England, and for vindicating and clearing of the doctrines of the said Church …
1987 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 551.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , and the intellectual grandeur of these monuments. The collected genius and piety of the age-if we may not call it the first, yet hardly inferior to the first …
1988 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 557.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… thirty years of age, but he was already a veteran in vice. He was a consummate dissembler. The school of adversity, which strengthens the virtues of other men …
1989 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 572.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… all the children of age could read the Scriptures, and were provided of Bibles, either by their parents, or by their ministers... I have lived many years in a parish …
1990 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 580.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… corroborated the substance of Oates’ information. Coleman’s letters during the three preceding years, addressed to Père la Chaise, the confessor of Louis …
1991 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 584.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the least remorse for his ill-led life.” Charles II died on the 6th of February, 1684, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. With his life departed all the homage …
1992 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 590.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… all the street, or in all the numberless windows in the market-place.” Having ended his last words to the people, he took hold of the ladder to go up. He paused, and …
1993 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 600.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… which the term is borrowed-a shambles. The Presbyterians were hunted on the mountains and tracked by the bloodhounds of the Privy Council to the caves and …
1994 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 606.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Baxter. The scene that followed we shall give in the words of Bennet. It will enable us to realize the monstrous tyranny of the times, and the utter shame into …
1995 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 11.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… . The customs and constitutions of the Franks were seriously attributed to the Romans in the time of the emperors. Popes quoted the Bible in the Latin …
1996 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 15.10 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… five years of age, whose only covering was a cloth tied round the middle, went in pairs, by hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands, through the towns and villages …
1997 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 34.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… ,” replied the aged provincial, “that I am bent with the weight of years, and weak in body, and that I have not the learning, ability, and eloquence, that so great an …
1998 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 34.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… that the end of the world would come in 1651, was less mistaken in pointing out the year when the future Reformer would appear. Not long after, he was born in a …
1999 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 36.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… in the age of Augustus or of Pericles. The ardor of his mind and the fatigues of the school wore him out in a few years; but in the intercourse of private life he …
2000 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 38.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
Reuchlin had barely attained the age of twenty years, when he taught philosophy and Greek and Latin at Basle; and—what then passed for a miracle—a German was heard speaking Greek.