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1961 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 297.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , in the thirty-eighth year of his age, the great career of Gustavus Adolphus. His sudden appearance on the scene, and his sudden departure from it, are equally …
1962 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 305.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , in the eerie nights of the forest, on the graves of their stricken comrades; when the roofs of the village houses would be without holes, the yards without crumbling …
1963 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 324.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… were the Buckler of the Faith, and the Anatomy of the Mass. The latter still finds numerous readers. Dumoulin was a child of four years when the St. Bartholomew …
1964 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 327.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… eighteen years; he now began to govern. He called to him the men Mazarin had named on his death-bed-Le Tellier and the great Colbert-and told them that they were …
1965 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 328.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the two communions. In almost every case the commissioners found that the Roman Catholics were in the right, and the Protestants in the wrong. The commissioners …
1966 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 329.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… in the family of one of the royal mistresses, her beauty and address fascinated the king, who privately married her on the death of the queen, Maria Theresa …
1967 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 332.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , and the sobbings of Protestants. Topping the ruins of the Church of Nimes might long be seen a stone which had formed the lintel of the portico of the now overthrown …
1968 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 338.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… to the commandments of the Church. This was a return, in the polished era of Louis XIV, to the regime of the tenth century. Even the monarch deemed this scrutiny …
1969 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 352.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , the subtlest intellect of the thirteenth century, and the man who had done more than any other doctor of the Middle Ages to fortify the basis of the Papal supremacy …
1970 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… Spain. The bride of the young prince, who was a year older than her husband, was the wealthiest heiress in Europe, and her dowry had been a prime consideration …
1971 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by the betrothal of the parties, but not as yet by their marriage, the Prince of Wales being then only twelve years of age. Burnet, 1. 35, 36.
1972 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 353.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… the wife of his brother. On the 9th of May, 1509, Henry VII was borne to the tomb; and no sooner had the coffin been lowered into the vault, and the staves of the officers …
1973 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 375.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… by the deformities of her body, and the yet greater deformities of her soul. We quote only the following short passage from the French translation: “On la vit …
1974 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 408.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ninth year, are still extant, attesting the skill he had acquired in these languages at that tender age. Catherine Parr, the last and noblest of the wives of …
1975 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 424.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… twelve years of age. Worship was performed in an unknown tongue. The Popish symbols were restored in the churches, the streets, and the highways. The higher …
1976 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 429.4 (James Aitken Wylie)
… for the fire. Latimer, stripped by his keeper, stood in a shroud. With his garments he seemed to have put off the burden of his many years. His bent figure instantly …
1977 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 437.2 (James Aitken Wylie)
… , the Apology, followed as it was by the Defence, did more than any other man of that age to demonstrate the falsehood of the Popish system, and the impregnable …
1978 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 443.3 (James Aitken Wylie)
… among the papers of Lord Burleigh the Italian letter of the Cardinal di Como to Parry, conveying the Pope’s approval of his intention to kill the queen when …
1979 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 465.5 (James Aitken Wylie)
… ; the Huguenots were the first soldiers, writers, merchants, and artisans of France. Holland became as renowned for letters and arts in the years that succeeded …
1980 History of Protestantism, vol. 3, p. 485.1 (James Aitken Wylie)
… an age when the channels of intercourse and information between Scotland and the rest of Christendom were few and contracted. In the French galleys, and …