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2481 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 197.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice, he would have pronounced for the calm — the mephitic stillness in which Christendom was rotting, rather than the hurricane with its noise and overturnings …
2482 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 197.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
339 the matter in his choice. It was the tempest that came: but if it shook the world by its thunders, and swept it by its hurricanes, it has left behind it a purer air, a clearer sky, and a fresher earth.
2483 History of Protestantism, vol. 2
… Wrong Choice—He walks by Faith—Visits Noyon—Renounces all his Preferments in the Romish Church—Sells his Patrimonial Inheritance—Goes to Paris—Meets Servetus …
2484 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 208.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice of being burned alive, or of pointing out to him the abodes of his brethren. Terrified by the horrible threat, which was about to be put in instant …
2485 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 220.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice by the awful deeds of blood we have narrated, Margaret, abandoning all hope, quitted Paris, where even the palace could hardly protect her from the …
2486 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 254.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice between the sermon and the mass. Taking with him Viret, Farel returned to Grandson, where he was joined by a third, De Glutinis, an evangelist from …
2487 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 260.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… made choice of was a little walled garden near the city gates. The time of year was the middle of March. The preparations were simple indeed — a few benches, a table …
2488 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 275.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… own choice to remain within the city or to leave it. The nuns of St. Claire, whom Sister Jussie’s narrative has made famous, chose to withdraw to Anneci. They had …
2489 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 298.7 (James Aitken Wylie)
… its choice between the teachers of morality and order, such as Calvin, and the apostles of atheism, with its attendant crimes, revolutions and woes, such as …
2490 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 303.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… most choice woman,” says Beza. These were the qualities that suited Calvin. The nuptials took place in the end of August, 1540. She was a girdle of strength to her …
2491 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 385.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice, and he must make it now, for the seventh sun of his third week is hastening to the setting. It is under the banner of Poverty that he elects to win the …
2492 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 389.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . Making choice of another, he opens to him the door of Parliament. A third he enrols in a political club; a fourth he places in the pulpit of a church, whose creed …
2493 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 390.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… no choice as regards the place he is to occupy in the august corps he aspires to enter; he leaves that entirely to the decision of the superior; he is equally …
2494 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 441.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice—to go to mass, to be butchered as sheep, or to fight for their lives. They chose the last, and made ready for battle. But first they must remove to a place …
2495 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 465.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… other choice soldiers. There came a regiment from Spain; and numerous volunteers from Piedmont, comprising many of the nobility. From 4,000, the original …
2496 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 521.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , their choice fell on Jean Maqon de la Riviere. He was the son of the king’s attorney at Angers, a rich man, but a bitter enemy of Protestantism. He was so offended …
2497 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 535.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice would never be reversed, and that it had brought a mighty accession of intellectual and moral power to the Protestant cause. They saw in Coligny’s …
2498 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 536.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… her choice, was as resolute as her husband, Anthony de Bourbon, was vacillating. Emulating the noble steadfastness of Coligny, she never repented of her resolution …
2499 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 551.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . The choice was a happy one. The cardinal was not lacking in ingenuity; he was, moreover, possessed of some little learning, and a master in address. Claude d’Espenee …
2500 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 568.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice it had made under Francis I. A second time it takes the downward road — that leading to revolution and the abyss. France is not unanimous, however; it …