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2021 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 219.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… collision; the Spaniards and the Belgians vied with each other in their exertions to creep into the councils of the young prince; the nuncios multiplied …
2022 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 232.15 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… -six years of age, who had fled from the severities which the Bishop of Camin and Prince Bogislas of Pomerania exercised on the friends of the Gospel, whether …
2023 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 237.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… blessed the young, he was also the hope of the aged. Catherine of Holzhausen, a widow far advanced in years, and who served God, approached him and said: “My parents …
2024 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 248.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… at the head of the Reformation, and to defend it,—the one with the sword of the Word, the other with the sword of princes.
2025 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 259.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of the Ammon, and descended the bold and savage rocks that border the Lake of Wallenstadt; on reaching the town, he entered the house of his brother the dean …
2026 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 261.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… of the cup of learning, and that he could not live amidst the songs of his brothers, and the lowing of their herds. Being now eighteen years of age, he again repaired …
2027 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 262.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… years old, and often permitted himself to be led away by dissipation, and by the relaxed ideas of the age. As a Romish priest, he did not differ from all the surrounding …
2028 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 265.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , where the bishop received him with every mark of esteem. All the friends of learning immediately assembled around him. But the prince of the schools had easily …
2029 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 265.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… distinguish the friend of Zwingle from Frederick Myconius, the disciple of Luther. Oswald, after studying at Rothwyl, with a youth of his own age named Berthold …
2030 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 277.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… at the full strength of his voice: “I believe in God the Father,” &c. At twelve years of age his parents sent him to the grammar school of Emmeric; their hearts were …
2031 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 286.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , on the last night of the year 1520, torches flashed through the forest in every direction, and the shouts of men and the cry of savage dogs re-echoed through …
2032 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 286.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… did the flame that glowed so brightly in Zwingle’s bosom rekindle that of Berthold, and the timid Haller rushed into the midst of the savage bears, who, grinding …
2033 History of the Reformation, vol. 2, p. 288.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… in the young also a sacred fire by which they should be animated. One day in the year 1521, as he was engaged in his closet studying the Fathers of the Church, extracting …
2034 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 309.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… many ages re-discovered in the Bible by a monk of Wittenberg, had resounded from the plains of Saxony as far as Rome, Paris, and London; and the lofty mountains …
2035 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 321.5 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… -four years of age, of short stature, diffident, and plain in appearance, dared take up the gauntlet which the first college in the world had thrown down. They …
2036 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 341.4 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… seventy years of age, as distinguished for learning as for the austerity of his manners, was the object of universal veneration. He had been the oldest councillor …
2037 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 356.3 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… at the dangers with which the Reformation threatened the religion of the Middle Ages, and not, like the Italians, at those to which Rome and her hierarchy were …
2038 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 393.11 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… ; so the hierarchy, from age to age, and almost from year to year, contracted the space that it had temporarily granted to the human mind, until at last this space …
2039 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 398.1 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… , the same aged canon who had procured Zwingle’s election to Zurich, undertook the defense of the pope. He maintained that the Church, the flock, the “third estate …
2040 History of the Reformation, vol. 3, p. 399.8 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… the most original of all the characters that appeared in the great drama of the sixteenth century. At the age of nine years, he had been placed under the care …