Search for: Choice
2501 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 569.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… 12,000 choice foot-soldiers from Conde’s army, four squadrons of horse, and 2,000 English in the place, with 100 gentlemen who had volunteered to perish in …
2502 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 590.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice, he gave his decided preference to that of inquisitor, “from his ardent desire,” his biographer tells us, “to exterminate heretics, and extend the Roman …
2503 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 603.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice. His physician, Ambrose Pare, a Protestant, he kept all night in his cabinet, so selfishly careful was he of his own miserable life at the very moment …
2504 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 609.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… made choice of a creature so paltry, cowardly, and vicious to reign over them. But the occurrence furnished the duke with a pretext of which he was but too glad …
2505 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 618.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice, and his subjects would then know whether they had a Protestant or a Roman Catholic for their sovereign. Henry, doubtless, deemed his policy a masterly …
2506 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 620.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice which Henry now made is just the choice which it was to be expected he would make. There is reason to fear that he had never felt the power of the Gospel …
2507 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 20.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . His choice lay between Christina, Duchess of Lorraine (his cousin), and Margaret, Duchess of Parma, a natural daughter of Charles V. He fixed at last on the latter …
2508 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 128.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice having soon afterwards been ratified by Philip II., the duke immediately took upon him the burden of that terrible struggle which had crushed …
2509 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 134.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice lighted upon a son of Catherine de Medici. The Duke of Anjou, the elect of the Provinces, inherited all the vices of the family from which he was …
2510 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 142.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice of elders and deacons, and it permitted him to interfere in the election of ministers only so far as to approve the choice of the people. The Synod …
2511 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 147.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice fell on the former. Henry was nearer them, he could the more easily send them assistance; besides, they hoped that on his death his crown would devolve …
2512 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 350.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice band of English scholars with whom Colet had formed so endearing a friendship in the capital of Tuscany. William Lily was appointed to preside …
2513 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 396.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the choice of the chapter was to fall. If no election was made within twelve days, the king was to nominate to the see by letters-patent. After the bishop-elect …
2514 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 434.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… her choice of councilors. She did not dismiss the men who had served under her sister, but she neutralized their influence by joining others with them, favorable …
2515 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 456.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… their choice was limited, and it was the one adopted. Tempest, conflagration, and battle had laid the pride of Spain in the dust.Meteren; Hakluyt, vol. 1., p. 603.
2516 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 472.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his choice between the favor of the hierarchy and the Gospel. His courage failed him: the disciple became the accuser.
2517 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 495.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… nation’s choice when they authoritatively decreed the suppression of the Romish hierarchy and the adoption of the Protestant faith. A short summary of …
2518 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 554.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… king’s choice having to be made between the two, turned in favor of the Presbyterians, whose loyalty was far in excess of the deserts of the man on whom it was …
2519 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 567.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… free choice of the people, and not by the nomination of the patron, were called on to retrace their steps, and begin anew by passing through this ordeal. Collation …
2520 History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century (Introduction), p. 2.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… a choice among various doctrines—rejecting some, preserving others, and arranging those which were retained so as to combine them into a new system.