Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 43
... House of Commons . We have seen an old woman , with no talents beyond the cunning of a fortune - teller , and with the education of a scullion , exalted into a prophetess , and sur- rounded by tens of thousands of devoted followers ...
... House of Commons . We have seen an old woman , with no talents beyond the cunning of a fortune - teller , and with the education of a scullion , exalted into a prophetess , and sur- rounded by tens of thousands of devoted followers ...
Page 55
... house were so effectually suppressed that no copy of them is now to be found in the most extensive libraries . One book in particular , entitled Of the Benefits of the Death of Christ , had this fate . It was written in Tuscan , was ...
... house were so effectually suppressed that no copy of them is now to be found in the most extensive libraries . One book in particular , entitled Of the Benefits of the Death of Christ , had this fate . It was written in Tuscan , was ...
Page 56
... House of Austria was unable to prevent the Diet from confiscating , by one sweeping decree , the estates of the Church . In Austria Proper it was generally said that only one - thirtieth part of the population could be counted on as ...
... House of Austria was unable to prevent the Diet from confiscating , by one sweeping decree , the estates of the Church . In Austria Proper it was generally said that only one - thirtieth part of the population could be counted on as ...
Page 63
... House of Austria pressed on , subjugated Pomerania , and were stopped in their progress only by the ramparts of Stralsund . And now again the tide turned . Two violent outbreaks of religious feeling in opposite directions had given a ...
... House of Austria pressed on , subjugated Pomerania , and were stopped in their progress only by the ramparts of Stralsund . And now again the tide turned . Two violent outbreaks of religious feeling in opposite directions had given a ...
Page 64
... House of Austria . On the other side , it was less a contest for the reformed doctrines than for national independence . Governments began to form them- selves into new combinations , in which community of political interest was far ...
... House of Austria . On the other side , it was less a contest for the reformed doctrines than for national independence . Governments began to form them- selves into new combinations , in which community of political interest was far ...
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