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2021 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 443.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… among the papers of Lord Burleigh the Italian letter of the Cardinal di Como to Parry, conveying the Pope’s approval of his intention to kill the queen when …
2022 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 465.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ; the Huguenots were the first soldiers, writers, merchants, and artisans of France. Holland became as renowned for letters and arts in the years that succeeded …
2023 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 485.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… an age when the channels of intercourse and information between Scotland and the rest of Christendom were few and contracted. In the French galleys, and …
2024 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 …
2025 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 …
2026 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 …
2027 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 …
2028 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
2029 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 …
2030 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 …
2031 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 …
2032 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 …
2033 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 …
2034 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 …
2035 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 …
2036 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 …
2037 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 …
2038 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 …
2039 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 …
2040 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 …