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1921 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 407.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . The adorning of the altar, and the accompanying rites, will occupy the time of the widow, and prevent the thoughts of a husband entering her mind. The matter …
1922 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 449.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the religion of the Vaudois. (Leger, Hist. des Vaudois, livr. 2, p. 27.) He includes, of course, in this estimate the Vaudois in the Valleys, on the plain of Piedmont …
1923 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 454.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… befallen the Churches at the foot of their mountains, had preceded the appearance of the crusaders at the entrance of the Valleys. The same devastation which …
1924 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 476.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the mountains to exchange the weapons of war for the spade and the pruning-knife. With steps slow and feeble the aged and the infirm were led down into the vales …
1925 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 477.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… for the cruel deeds of Spain and France, on the ground of the intolerance and blindness of the age. But six years before the St. Bartholomew Massacre was enacted …
1926 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 490.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , on the summit of the pass that gives entrance from the Valley of the Pelice, a second of 6,000 had entered by the ravine at the foot of the valley; and a third of …
1927 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 509.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… towards the Waldenses changed with the shifting in the great current of European politics. At one unfavorable moment, when the influence of the Vatican …
1928 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 509.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . The spiritual condition of the Vandots languished. The year 1789 brought with it astounding changes. The French Revolution rung out the knell of the old …
1929 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 511.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… as the thunder-cloud of the Alps, and the Tedeschi retreat before the victorious arms of the French. The blood of the three great battles of the campaign was …
1930 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 517.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… only the more conspicuous the infamy of her relation to the man who had bestowed it. The Constable on the one side, and the guises on the other, sought to buttress …
1931 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 524.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… arrest the martyr Du Bourg. He was carried to the Hotel de Tournelles, where he died on the 10th of July, in the forty-first year of his age. Daytin, lib. 1, pp. 17,18 …
1932 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 534.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… five years of age. The 24th of August was a fatal day to Coliguy, for on that day, fifty years afterwards, he fell by the poignard of an assassin in the St. Bartholomew …
1933 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 577.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the princes of the blood, the great officers of state, the lords and ladies of the court-the dimness of their virtues concealed beneath the splendor of their …
1934 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 579.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… down. The basement storey is loopholed for cannon and musketry, and the upper part is simply a two-story house in the style of the French chateau of the period …
1935 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 590.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the little town of Bosco, on the plain of Piedmont, in the year 1504. His parents were in humble station. “The genius of the son,” says his biographer Gabutius …
1936 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 606.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the news, is thus entitled-Rex netera Colignii Frobat. When the Author was in the Library of the Vatican a few years ago, he observed that the inscriptions …
1937 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 613.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
Charles IX died on the 30th of May, 1574, just twenty-one months after the St. Bartholomew Massacre, having lived twenty-five years and reigned fourteen. “Mourut de chagrin et de langueur en la fleur de son age.” (Maimbourg, lib. 6, p. 490.)
1938 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 616.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
The last Valois has fallen by the dagger. Only seventeen years have elapsed since the St. Bartholomew Massacre, and yet the authors of that terrible tragedy …
1939 History of Protestantism, vol. 2, p. 620.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… itself. The Duke of Parma— the most illustrious general of the age—came to its help. Henry’s affairs made no progress; and thus the following year (1591)was as …
1940 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 13.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the age of twenty-seven years, and had incurred the suspicion of heresy by speaking against the edicts of the emperor, and by marrying. Joost Laurence, a leading …