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1941 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 14.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
In the midst of his cruel work, and, we may say, in the midst of his years, the emperor was overtaken by old age. The sixteenth century is waxing in might around him …
1942 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 15.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… few years, made on this iron frame! The bulky mould in which the outer man of Charles was cast still remains to him-the ample brow, the broad chest, the muscular …
1943 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 41.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… possible, the utter enslavement of the nation. The “Compromise,” as the league of the nobles was called, was formed early in the year 1566. Its first suggestion …
1944 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 53.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the chisel and the pencil. The crowning glory of Antwerp was its cathedral, which, although begun in 1124, had been finished only a few years before the events …
1945 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 69.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… compelling the citizens to defray the cost of the instruments of their oppression; and now the Low Countries, renowned in former days for the mildness of …
1946 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 75.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… as the night’s lodging she had given the Reformed pastor, for when brought upon the scaffold she asked if there was no room for pardon. The officer answered …
1947 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 81.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… of the Blood Council, was making his escape on the ice. The ice gave way, and the officer fell in, and would have been drowned but for the humanity of the man whom …
1948 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 92.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… along the causeway which traverses the narrow isthmus that separates the waters of the Haarlem Lake from the Zuyder Zee, the Spanish army, on the 11th of December …
1949 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 124.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , The Rise of the Dutch Republic, when speaking of the intolerance and bigotry of the religious bodies of the Netherlands, specially emphasises the
1950 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 148.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the champions of Rome in defense of the Pauline teaching under the head of the corruption of man’s whole nature, the moral inability of his will, and the absolute …
1951 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 154.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the military art, and this was the science most needed at this moment by the States. Maurice became the greatest captain of his age: not only was he famous …
1952 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 155.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… on the 3rd of December, 1592, he expired in the forty-seventh year of his age, and the fourteenth of his government of the Netherlands. “With the Duke of Parma,” says …
1953 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 186.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… from the intrigues of the Fathers than the labors of their own clergy. But the golden age of the Jesuits in Poland, to be followed by the iron age to the people …
1954 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 208.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… -six years of age. He had faithfully served four emperors. Before going to the scaffold he called for Rosacius, and said, “How often have I entreated that God would …
1955 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 213.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… order for their banishment arrived in the beginning of autumn, 1622, and was all the more severe that it inferred the loss of the labours of the year. Leaving …
1956 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 231.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… . The first act was the scaffold at Prague, on which twenty-seven magnates, the first men of the land, and some of them the most illustrious of the age, poured …
1957 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 233.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the number of the supporters of Protestantism among the Hungarian magnates was daily diminishing. So did things continue until the year 1637. On the 17th …
1958 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 236.6 (James Aitken Wylie)
… on the throne, the Jesuits were the masters of the kingdom. It was their golden age in Austria, and they were resolved not to let slip the opportunity it offered …
1959 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 248.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the senate and the camp. In the one he learned to think as the statesman, in the other he imbibed the spirit of the soldier. Yet greater care was taken to develop …
1960 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 257.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… compared the present with the past, he would heave a sigh. “Alas!” we hear the aged narrator say, “the glory is departed.” The fire is now cold on the national hearth …