Search for: Choice
2621 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 …
2622 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 …
2623 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 …
2624 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 …
2625 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 …
2626 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 …
2627 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 …
2628 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 …
2629 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 …
2630 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 …
2631 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 …
2632 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 …
2633 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 …
2634 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 …
2635 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 …
2636 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 …
2637 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 …
2638 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 …
2639 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 …
2640 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 …