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29981 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 577.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… following character: — “Cunning, corrupt, a liar, a great dissembler, swearing and denying God like a sergeant.” Under such a teacher, it is not difficult to conceive …
29982 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 582.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… heroic character was just then beginning to open, and whom his mother, in that dark hour, dedicated to the service of the Protestant cause. This arrival awakened …
29983 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 598.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his character of Vicar of God. Well was it for Christendom that so much of the military furor of Pius was discharged in all eastern direction. The Turk became …
29984 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 76.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… human character, and heroic in human achievement, must spring from some great truth realised in the soul. William of Orange gave a forecast of his future career …
29985 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 96.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the character and intentions of their enemy, and that in the war he was waging for the utter extirpation of truth, he shrunk from no perfidy and cruelty, and …
29986 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 147.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of character, and who in obedience to the summons of the States now quitted the University of Leyden, where he had been pursuing his studies, to be invested …
29987 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 153.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the character and government of God, and the eternal destinies of men, ought ever to inspire those who undertake to deal with a subject so awful, and the solution …
29988 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 216.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of character, nor grace of manners. The free cities were placed under a reign of terrorism. New governors and imperial judges were appointed to rule them; but …
29989 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 298.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his character was his piety. “He was a king,” said Oxenstierna, “God-fearing in all his works and actions even unto death.” From his youth his soul had been visited …
29990 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 336.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… proper character it is. Thanks to you, heresy is no more.’ God alone can have worked this marvel. King of heaven, preserve the king of earth: it is the prayer of the …
29991 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 420.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , pure character, and great learning, infinitely superior to the other two with whom he was to be mated. Reginald Pole, a scion of the House of York, had attained …
29992 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 469.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ineffaceable character upon the Scottish Reformation; and the place the Bible this early made for itself in the people’s affections, and the authority …
29993 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 470.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his character, won the esteem of Lambert, and we find the ex-Franciscan saying to Philip, “This young man of the illustrious family of the Hamiltons... is come from …
29994 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 506.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the characters of those concerned in it: but he failed to ward off the covetous hands that were clutching this rich booty; and the only arrangement he succeeded …
29995 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 536.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… private character was purer and more respectable than that of his father, and his deportment more dignified, but his notions of his own prerogative were …
29996 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 543.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… everlasting God.” A scene like this stamps, as with photographic stroke, the impress of its grandeur upon a nation’s character, and the memory of it abides as …
29997 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 557.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… true character of Charles. Mr. John Livingstone, one of the Scottish ministers sent to accompany the king from Holland, is said to have remarked, when stepping …
29998 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 580.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the character of the times, which were prolific in strange surmises and unnatural and monstrously wicked devices, that few people doubted that a daring …
29999 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 584.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… his character looked wickeder, as well as meaner,” says Bishop Burner, “than that he, all the while that he was professing to be of the Church of England, expressing …
30000 History of the Reformation, vol. 1, p. 18.2 (Jean-Henri Merle D'aubigné)
… a character and universality that it has not borne subsequently. And, above all, the mystery of iniquity desolated the holy places, as it has not been permitted …