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2001 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 40.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… twelve years old when this great genius of the age was born. A man of no small vivacity and wit, named Gerard, a native of Gouda in the Low Countries, loved a physician’s …
2002 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 45.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the age of eleven years to the convent of Foulda, in which he was to become a monk. But Ulrich, who felt no inclination for this profession, ran away from the convent …
2003 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 48.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the young poet allowed himself to be carried away by the splendor of the court. The prince placed him in his hunting-train, and in the noisy halls of the palace …
2004 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 51.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… conceive the liveliest expectations. Accordingly, in 1497, when Martin had attained the age of fourteen years, his father resolved to part with him, and send …
2005 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 52.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… many years after to study at Wittenberg, when the poor scholar of Eisenach had become the first doctor of the age, was received with joy at his table and under …
2006 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 55.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the festival of Easter, probably in the year 1503. Luther was going to pass a short time with his family, and wore a sword according to the custom of the age. He …
2007 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 63.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… under the conflict and the tension of his soul. He was attacked by an illness that brought him to the brink of the grave. This was in the second year of his abode …
2008 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 71.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the prince; he had admired the strength of his understanding, the forcibleness of his eloquence, and the excellency of the matters that he expounded. The elector …
2009 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 90.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… to the school at Annaberg to finish his studies. Tetzel arrived in this city shortly after and remained there two years. The people flocked in crowds to hear …
2010 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 92.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… least, the justice of the demands of the friends of the Gospel. At the bottom of his heart he was not violently opposed to Luther. Capito, one of the most distinguished …
2011 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 109.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… among the crowd of students present at the disputation was a youth about twenty years of age, named John Knipstrow. He had read Luther’s theses, and had found …
2012 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 120.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… -seven years of age, who, notwithstanding the prejudices of his order, appeared unwilling to lose one of the doctor’s words. He was born in a small town of Alsace …
2013 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 120.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… later years he consecrated these tranquil moments to meditation on the Scriptures. Brentz was one of the first to perceive the new light then dawning on …
2014 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 130.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… teach the three boys. The tutor was an excellent man, and in after-years proclaimed the Gospel with great energy, even to an advanced age. He overlooked nothing …
2015 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 130.7 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… changed the name of Schwartzerd into that of Melancthon; both words, the one in German and the other in Greek, signifying black earth. Most of the learned men …
2016 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 130.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… twelve years of age, went to the University of Heidelberg, and here he began to slake his ardent thirst for knowledge. He took his bachelor’s degree at fourteen …
2017 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 131.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… that the elector formed the design of inviting some distinguished scholar to the university of Wittenberg, as professor of the ancient languages. He applied …
2018 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 182.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… claimed the crown of the Caesars from the assembly at Frankfort. A youthful prince, grandson of the last emperor, born in the first year of the century, and consequently …
2019 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 195.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… in the month of August; the betrothal took place on the 25th of September, and at the end of November the wedding was celebrated. Old John Luther with his wife …
2020 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 212.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… seventeen years of age, had received in his heart a sincere love for the truth, and was firmly attached to Luther. When he saw the reformer struck by the Roman …