Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4Tauchnitz, 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 97
... Protestantism did so much , yet did no more , how it was that the Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half of what she had lost , is certainly a most curious and ...
... Protestantism did so much , yet did no more , how it was that the Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half of what she had lost , is certainly a most curious and ...
Page 99
... Protestantism , and unfavourable to Catholicism . We wish that we could think so . But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well - founded expectation . We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years the human mind ...
... Protestantism , and unfavourable to Catholicism . We wish that we could think so . But we see great reason to doubt whether this be a well - founded expectation . We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years the human mind ...
Page 102
... Protestant Churches , recorded in certain books . It is equally open to all who , in any age , can read those books ; nor can all the discoveries of all the philosophers in the world add a single verse to any of those books . It is ...
... Protestant Churches , recorded in certain books . It is equally open to all who , in any age , can read those books ; nor can all the discoveries of all the philosophers in the world add a single verse to any of those books . It is ...
Page 110
... Protestant- ism was rapid and decisive . The dominion of the Papacy was felt by the nations of Teutonic blood as the dominion of Italians , of foreigners , of men who were aliens in language , manners , and intellectual constitution ...
... Protestant- ism was rapid and decisive . The dominion of the Papacy was felt by the nations of Teutonic blood as the dominion of Italians , of foreigners , of men who were aliens in language , manners , and intellectual constitution ...
Page 111
... Protestantism attained its highest ascendency , an ascendency which it soon lost , and which it has never regained . Hundreds , who could well remember Brother Martin a devout Catholic , lived to see the revolution of which he was the ...
... Protestantism attained its highest ascendency , an ascendency which it soon lost , and which it has never regained . Hundreds , who could well remember Brother Martin a devout Catholic , lived to see the revolution of which he was the ...
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