Critical and Historical Essays ; Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longman, 1862 |
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... English city braved sword and famine for the reformed doctrines with the spirit of Rochelle , or for the Catholic doctrines with the spirit of Paris . Neither sect in England formed a League . Neither sect extorted a recantation from ...
... English city braved sword and famine for the reformed doctrines with the spirit of Rochelle , or for the Catholic doctrines with the spirit of Paris . Neither sect in England formed a League . Neither sect extorted a recantation from ...
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... English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution as we have ; but they had that without which ...
... English in the sixteenth century were , beyond all doubt , a free people . They had not , indeed , the outward show of freedom ; but they had the reality . They had not as good a constitution as we have ; but they had that without which ...
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... English crown . In plain words , they did not think the dif ference between the hostile sects worth a struggle . There was undoubtedly a zealous Protestant party and a zealous Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe ...
... English crown . In plain words , they did not think the dif ference between the hostile sects worth a struggle . There was undoubtedly a zealous Protestant party and a zealous Catholic party . But both these parties were , we believe ...
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... English of that generation were irreligious . They held firmly those doctrines which are common to the Catholic and to the Protestant theology . But they had no fixed opinion as to the matters in dispute between the churches . They were ...
... English of that generation were irreligious . They held firmly those doctrines which are common to the Catholic and to the Protestant theology . But they had no fixed opinion as to the matters in dispute between the churches . They were ...
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... English had not , for ages , been bigoted Papists . In the fourteenth century , the first and perhaps the greatest of the reformers , John Wickliffe , had stirred the public mind to its inmost depths . During the same century , a ...
... English had not , for ages , been bigoted Papists . In the fourteenth century , the first and perhaps the greatest of the reformers , John Wickliffe , had stirred the public mind to its inmost depths . During the same century , a ...
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