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1841 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 45.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… derived, the same Council condemned the reading of the Holy Scriptures. “We prohibit,” says the fourteenth canon, “the laics from having the books of the Old and …
1842 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 59.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
In the North Riding of Yorkshire, watered by the Tees, lies the parish of Wicliffe. In the manor-house of this parish, in the year 1324, was born a child, who was named …
1843 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 62.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the passage of the destroyer; he had seen the human race fading from off the earth as if the ages had completed their cycle, and the end of the world was at hand …
1844 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 64.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… between the two orders was speedily productive of broils, and finally led to a conflict with the university authorities; and the founder, finding the plan …
1845 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 88.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… with the English delegates. The negotiation dragged on for two years: the result was a compromise; the Pope engaging, on his part to desist from the reservation …
1846 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 91.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… .” The Pope languidly maintained the conflict for a few years, but he was compelled ultimately to give way before the firm attitude of the nation. The statutes …
1847 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 100.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the maxims of the age; they were opposed to the opinions on which Churches and States had acted for a thousand years; and they went to the razing of the whole …
1848 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 101.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , reversing the practice of a thousand years, condemning the maxims of past ages, and necessarily provoking the hostility of the wealthiest and most powerful …
1849 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 110.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… over the kingdom. The author himself had to see to all this. The methods of publishing a book in that age were various. The more common way was to place a copy in …
1850 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 124.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… all the men in Christendom. Bursting suddenly upon a dark age, he stands before it in a light not borrowed from the schools, nor from the doctors of the Church …
1851 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 148.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… years.” The reverses of his maturer years had sobered the impetuous and fiery spirit of his youth. He committed the error common to almost all the princes of …
1852 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 213.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the weight of the structure about to be erected. The experiment had been tried of rearing the new social edifice upon the old foundations, but the attempt …
1853 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 215.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… at the same time united... Had not the Turks, at that time the violent enemies of all Christendom, come during the first years of the reign of Frederick to plant …
1854 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 218.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… at the age of seven years shall be taught the grammar, and the Italian and Slavonian tongues, so as at fourteen years of age they may be skillful therein and …
1855 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 227.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… old age had come upon the race, and that the end of all things was at hand. Indeed a belief was generally entertained that the year One thousand would usher in …
1856 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 231.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
At the age of fourteen years (1497) Martin was sent to the Franciscan school at Magdeburg. At school the hardships and privations amid which his childhood …
1857 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 232.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… attained the age of eighteen years. This seat of learning had been founded about a century before; it owed its rise to the patronage of the princely houses …
1858 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 233.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the library of the university and spent some hours amid its treasures. He was now twenty years of age, and he reveled in the riches around him. One day, as he …
1859 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 233.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… lays the holy cross, and they who bear it patiently learn wisdom.” Luther heard, in the words of the aged priest, God calling him back from the grave. He recovered …
1860 History of Protestantism, vol. 1, p. 266.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… proclaimed the advent of the year of release - the begun opening of the doors of that great prison-house in which the human soul had sat for ages and sighed in …