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2001 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 236.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… on the throne, the Jesuits were the masters of the kingdom. It was their golden age in Austria, and they were resolved not to let slip the opportunity it offered …
2002 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 248.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the senate and the camp. In the one he learned to think as the statesman, in the other he imbibed the spirit of the soldier. Yet greater care was taken to develop …
2003 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 257.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… compared the present with the past, he would heave a sigh. “Alas!” we hear the aged narrator say, “the glory is departed.” The fire is now cold on the national hearth …
2004 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 297.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , in the thirty-eighth year of his age, the great career of Gustavus Adolphus. His sudden appearance on the scene, and his sudden departure from it, are equally …
2005 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 305.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , in the eerie nights of the forest, on the graves of their stricken comrades; when the roofs of the village houses would be without holes, the yards without crumbling …
2006 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 324.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… were the Buckler of the Faith, and the Anatomy of the Mass. The latter still finds numerous readers. Dumoulin was a child of four years when the St. Bartholomew …
2007 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 327.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… eighteen years; he now began to govern. He called to him the men Mazarin had named on his death-bed-Le Tellier and the great Colbert-and told them that they were …
2008 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 328.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the two communions. In almost every case the commissioners found that the Roman Catholics were in the right, and the Protestants in the wrong. The commissioners …
2009 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 329.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the family of one of the royal mistresses, her beauty and address fascinated the king, who privately married her on the death of the queen, Maria Theresa …
2010 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 332.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , and the sobbings of Protestants. Topping the ruins of the Church of Nimes might long be seen a stone which had formed the lintel of the portico of the now overthrown …
2011 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 338.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the commandments of the Church. This was a return, in the polished era of Louis XIV, to the regime of the tenth century. Even the monarch deemed this scrutiny …
2012 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 352.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , the subtlest intellect of the thirteenth century, and the man who had done more than any other doctor of the Middle Ages to fortify the basis of the Papal supremacy …
2013 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Spain. The bride of the young prince, who was a year older than her husband, was the wealthiest heiress in Europe, and her dowry had been a prime consideration …
2014 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by the betrothal of the parties, but not as yet by their marriage, the Prince of Wales being then only twelve years of age. Burnet, 1. 35, 36.
2015 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the wife of his brother. On the 9th of May, 1509, Henry VII was borne to the tomb; and no sooner had the coffin been lowered into the vault, and the staves of the officers …
2016 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 375.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by the deformities of her body, and the yet greater deformities of her soul. We quote only the following short passage from the French translation: “On la vit …
2017 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 408.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ninth year, are still extant, attesting the skill he had acquired in these languages at that tender age. Catherine Parr, the last and noblest of the wives of …
2018 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 424.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… twelve years of age. Worship was performed in an unknown tongue. The Popish symbols were restored in the churches, the streets, and the highways. The higher …
2019 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 429.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… for the fire. Latimer, stripped by his keeper, stood in a shroud. With his garments he seemed to have put off the burden of his many years. His bent figure instantly …
2020 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 437.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , the Apology, followed as it was by the Defence, did more than any other man of that age to demonstrate the falsehood of the Popish system, and the impregnable …