...ls is surging. Some Brazilians warn that Brazil could eventually become a Protestant country. Some conservatives note that the evangelical sects are... ... as their ideas of what God is, that separated them. They found Catholics, Protestants and Jews in each category. ----―Gosh Wanda, I thought... ...future? Does He know who will go to heaven and who to hell? John Calvin‘s protestant doctrine of ‗predestination‘ developed a major belief system ar... ...for war: for or against Muslims, for or against Catholics, for or against Protestants, for or against Jews, for or against Hindus! We need a war: to... ...extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman chur... ...Is destroying another‘s property the same as stealing? During the Counter Reformation, the Catholics took the Protestants‘ books but didn‘t keep the...

...................................68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOH... .... How was this? Why could not Dante’ s Catholicism continue; but Luther’ s Protestantism must needs follow? Alas, nothing will continue. I do not make... ...ccredited by Koreishes or Conclaves, be intolerable and detestable to him. Protestantism, too, is the work of a Prophet: the prophet-work of that sixt... ...shall be true, and authentically divine! At first view it might seem as if Protestantism were entirely destructive to this that we call Hero-worship, ... ...ble good, religious or social, for man- kind. One often hears it said that Protestantism introduced a 106 Thomas Carlyle new era, radically different... ...ence- forth an impossibility? So we hear it said.—Now I need not deny that Protestantism was a revolt against spiritual sover- eignties, Popes and muc... ...at epoch of the world. There is nothing generically new or peculiar in the Reformation; it was a re- turn to Truth and Reality in opposition to Falseh... ...- can, that first kindled the wrath of Luther, and produced the Protestant Reformation. We will say to the people who main- tain it, if indeed any suc... ...no man’s sins could be pardoned by them. It was the beginning of the whole Reformation. We know how it went; forward from this first public challenge ...

......... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM................................................

...many, the great leader of the mighty change in England which is called The Reformation, and which set the people free from their sla very to the prie... ...he must beg to keep it safe. At last Cromwell represented that there was a Protestant Princess in Germany—those who held the reformed religion were ca... ...stant Princess in Germany—those who held the reformed religion were called Protestants, because their leaders had Protested against the abuses and imp... ...at one time, and causing to be drawn to the fire on the same hurdles, some Protestant prisoners for denying the Pope’s doctrines, and some Roman Catho... ...s over. There was a lady, Anne Askew, in Lincolnshire, who inclined to the Protestant opinions, and whose husband being a fierce Catholic, turned her ... ...the thirty eighth of his reign. Henry the Eighth has been favoured by some Protestant writers, because the Reformation was achieved in his time. But t... ...Henry the Eighth has been favoured by some Protestant writers, because the Reformation was achieved in his time. But the mighty merit of it lies with ... ... to allow some rather tiresome public speakers to get up into this Tree of Reformation, and point out their errors to them, in long dis courses, whil... ...he people. Nine of them were hanged upon nine green branches of the Oak of Reformation; and so, for the time, that tree may be said to have withered a...

...pothesis) while the history most important to the present day, that of the Reformation, is full of such obscurities that we are ignorant of the real n... ...ly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I offer to the character and fidelity o... ...a, like the Guises and Cardinal Granvelle, saw plainly the future that the Reformation was bringing upon Europe. She and they saw monarchies, religion... ...favor in which Catherine is held. The Opposition in France has always been Protestant, because it has had no policy but that of negation; it inherits ... ...that of negation; it inherits the theories of Lutherans, Cal- vinists, and Protestants on the terrible words “liberty,” “tol- erance,” “progress,” and... ...of her posi- tion, he saw with what injustice historians—all influenced by Protestants—had treated this queen. Out of this convic- tion grew the three... ...oolish accusations of treachery launched against her by the writers of the Reformation. This was the great age of that statesmanship the code of which... ...the Guises, solely because the Duchesse d’Etampes supported Calvin and the Protestants. Such was the political education of this queen, who saw in the... ...table. Unfor- tunately, Diane and Montmorency were as vehement against the Protestants as the Guises. There was therefore not the same animosity in th...

...he same number of people. We were English boating-men, and the Belgian boating- men fell upon our necks. I wonder if French Huguenots were as cordiall... ... delicate than sweetbrier. I wish our way had always lain among woods. Trees are the most civil society. An old oak that has been growing where he sta... ...earing that, where the Saint is so much commanded for exactitude, he will be expected to be very grateful for his tablet. 85 The Inland V oyage This ... ...bettered, some souls in Creil upon the Oise would find themselves none the worse either here or hereafter. I cannot help wondering, as I transcribe th... ...on at the pin-point stars, which are themselves great worlds full of flowing rivers greater than the Oise. I see it as plainly, I say, as a propositio...

... So far from complying with this their inclination, by which all hopes of reformation would have been abolished, and even the gate shut against her i... ... mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church o... ... he was so bitter as Thwackum; for he always expressed some hopes of Tom’s reformation; “which,” he said, “the unparalleled goodness shown by his uncl... ...r adversary; or, as the phrase is, making themselves his match. But such reformations are rather to be wished than hoped for: I shall content myself... ...liquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience... ...nd was a hearty well wisher to the glorious cause of lib erty, and of the Protestant religion. It is no wonder, there fore, that in circumstances wh... ... sistent such behaviour is in men who are going to fight in defence of the Protestant religion.” Mr. Adderly, which was the name of the other ensign... ...ough I love my king and country, I hope, as well as any man in it, yet the Protestant interest is no small motive to my becoming a volunteer in the ca... ...ect to be any gainers by the change; for that Prince Charles was as good a Protestant as any in England; and that nothing but regard to right made him...

...ion was made by the better informed among the French between Calvinism and Protestantism or 5 The Chaplet of Pearls Lutheranism, in which they includ... ...that the reverent gestures that came naturally to him were regarded by the Protestants as idolatry, and that he would be viewed as a recreants from hi... ... turned suddenly and said, ‘But I forget, Monsieur is a Huguenot?’ ‘I am a Protestant of the English Church,’ said Berenger, rather stiffly, in the fo... ...rship viewed by both Walsingham and Sidney as a model to which the English Protestants ought to be brought. However, Sidney excused all this as more b... ... Admiral was greatly rejoiced that the Nid de Merle estates should go into Protestant hands, and that the old gentleman lost no opportunity of impress... ...—one, he believed, the Bible. ‘Yes, sir, the Vulgate—a copy older than the Reformation, so not liable to be called an heretical version,’ said Berenge...

...ott of Leicester Abbey that “he was come to lay his bones among them,” the reformation in Religion and the King’s riding through the streets of London... ... pest of society, Elizabeth. Many were the people who fell martyrs to the protestant Reli- gion during her reign; I suppose not fewer than a dozen. S... ... could you Reader have beleived it possible that some hardened and zealous Protestants have even abused her for that steadfastness in the Catholic Rel... ... reign the roman Catholics of England did not behave like Gentlemen to the protestants. Their Behaviour indeed to the Royal Family and both Houses of...

...of buttered toast, a middling sized dish of beef and ham cut thin, and the Protestant Manual in two volumes post octavo. Like some other ladies who in... ... pered. Whenever she and her husband were at unusual vari ance, then the Protestant Manual was in high feather. Knowing from experience what these r... ...self to a Catholic, unless she was amazingly rich? You ought to be so very Protestant, com ing of such a Protestant family as you do. Let us be moral... ...she argued) with a benighted Mussulman or wild Islander than with a stanch Protestant. Arguing from this imperfect state of his morals, Mrs V arden fu... ...sent forth a tempting and delicious fragrance. Mrs V arden was seldom very Protestant at meals, unless it happened that they were underdone, or overdo... ... sacred duty to the family, to wish that some one would devise one for her reformation. Miss Miggs re marked, and very justly, as an abstract sentime...

...art; if upon art and science, then upon every branch of social economy his reformations and advances are equally due—due as to all, if due as to any. ... ...ing such a change, no memory with which I could more willingly connect any reformation, than thine, dear, noble Antigone! Accordingly, because a certa... ...and printed, ‘No Popery,’ as also the following trai- torous couplet— ‘The Protestants want Talbot, As the Papists have got all but;’ Meaning ‘all but... ... design- ing to dazzle the eyes of the unwary, &c.; he found in short that reformation, by popular insurrection, must end in the destruction and canno... ...spirit of the context suffi- ciently explained to them that it was used by protestants as a term of reproach, and indicated a faith that was an errone...

...nly by the gardens, portions of which are at present in a state of violent reformation. Therefore, though Chenonceaux has no great height, its delicat... ...y. Three hundred years ago, La Rochelle was the great French stronghold of Protestantism; but to-day it appears to be a’nursery of Papists. The walk u... ...naval power. The Rochelais had fleets and admirals, and their stout little Protestant bottoms carried defiance up and down. To say that I found any tr... ...,—incongruous relics of a season of starva- tion and blood. I believe that Protestantism is somewhat shrunken to-day at La Rochelle, and has taken ref... ...k by this incident; the execution by tor- ture of Jean Calas, accused as a Protestant of having hanged his son, who had gone over to the Church of Rom... ...icture in England which inspired the little plaster image, disseminated in Protestant lands, that we used to admire in our childhood. Sir Joshua, some...

...rience entitled us to expect. Thus we know that the instincts of religious reformation ripened everywhere at the same period of the sixteenth century ... ...g people to the muniment chest of the kirk. Would it not be a scandal to a Protestant church if she should say to communicants —We have no sacramental... ...e to guess how many parts in his Confession are or may be affected by the ‘reformation’ of the Non-intrusionists. Surely, he will think, if this refor... ...y for them to secede. That Europe thinks at present with less reverence of Protestant institutions than it did ten years ago, is due to one of these i... ...iefly culti- 159 Thomas de Quincey vated by the Roman Catholic Church, we Protestants, with our ridiculous prudery, find a stumbling-block in the ver... ...of falsehood, it was in the capital matter of religion. He ratted from his Protestant faith; and according to the literal origin of that figure he rat...

...s had once been the refectory of a small priory, or cell, broken up at the Reformation. Of furniture there was not much, only an open cupboard, displa... ..., if he and his wife were to bring up the child, she should be made a good Protestant Christian before they left the house, and there should be no mor... ...een’s Scottish secretary, recently taken into her service. Both these were Protestants, and, like the Bridgefield family, attended service in the cast... ...f being in Holy Orders conferred abroad, she had her fears for her child’s Protestant principles. The book, however, proved to be a translation of St.... ... with which my good Mr. Belton favours me, I take care to have nothing you Protestants dispute when I know it.” She added, smiling, “Heaven knows that... ...me of Cicely had been given, and whether the child had been so baptized by Protestant rites. “Wot you who the maid may be, madam?” Susan took courage ... ...hard Tal- bot had foreboded, done little but add to his detestation of the Reformation, and he had since fallen in with several of the seminary priest... ... oblivious that these desecra- tions had been quite as shocking before the Reformation. “All will soon be changed, however,” he added. “Sir Thomas Gre...

...ss that fol- lowed my birth, but the other children were all brought up as Protestants. Indeed, no difference was made between Eustace and me when we ... ... innovations were danger- ous. I also tried to fire with the same zeal for reformation the Abbess of Bellaise, who was a young and spirited woman, ope... ...I trusted his wisdom and goodness with all my heart, I thought his being a Protestant might bias his view in some degree, and I wanted to know whether... ...such a dispensation without offence, for, children, though you suppose all Protestants to be alike, such members of the English Church as my family, s... ...ation to the world and which the chief vocation for the cloister. Annora’s Protestant eyes grew large and round with horror, and she exclaimed at last... ... the Hague. Clement, who had been well-nigh ready to join us and be a good Protestant, was going back to the old delu- sions, and taking office under ...

... to believe, that could I convince them of their errors, they would become Protestants; they did not find, therefore, that facility in the work which ... ... regard to will and knowledge from the opinion they had entertained of me. Protestants, in general, are better instructed in the prin- ciples of their... ...ssion; the Catholic must content himself with the decisions of others, the Protestant must learn to decide for himself; they were not ignorant of this... ...hough not baptism, is very similar, and serves to persuade the people that Protestants are not Christians. I was clothed in a kind of gray robe, decor... ...sh works of merit; but her taste (if I may so express my- self) was rather Protestant; ever speaking warmly of Bayle, and highly esteeming St. Evremon... ...e to make me contemptible. It was less my literary fame than my per- sonal reformation, of which I here state the period, that drew upon me their jeal... ...r power having made the Protestant clergy forget all the principles of the reformation, all I had to do to recall these to their recollec- tion and to...

...648, was notoriously the last and the decisive conflict between Popery and Protestantism; the result of that war it was which fi- nally enlightened al... ...he were not a Papist, would have given his hopes and his confidence to the Protestant king. 8 Memorials, and Other Papers violated rights of conscien... ...y rate, have made her such; and, had any mode of monastic life existed for Protestants, I believe that she would before this have entered it, supposin... ...le at the first glance? Far from it. Search the Scriptures, was the cry in Protestant lands amongst all people, however much at war with each other. B... ...action, they were systematically depreci- ated by the great leaders of the Protestant Reformation. And yet hardly in a corresponding degree. For there... ...y were systematically depreci- ated by the great leaders of the Protestant Reformation. And yet hardly in a corresponding degree. For there was, after... ... unfitted them for use, had not the Peasants’ War, in the time of Luther’s reformation, little more than one hundred years before, given occasion for ...

...ead-bor- ough of the place, and a steady friend to Queen Elizabeth and the Protestant religion, was at one time inclined to suspect his guest of being... ...honour of his return, and, as he verily hoped, of 21 Sir Walter Scott his reformation. The stranger at first shook his head, as if declining the cour... ...Abingdon. But since that, T ony married a pure precisian, and is as good a Protestant, I warrant you, as the best.” “And looks grave, and holds his he... ...He was one of Queen Mary’s Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth’s Protestants; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon; and now he lives ... ...ot out of the church plate, which was hidden in the old Manor-house at the Reformation. Rich, however, he is, and God and his conscience, with the dev... ...By the holy Cross of Abingdon,” exclaimed Anthony Fos- ter, forgetting his Protestantism in his alarm, “I am a ruined man!” So saying, he rushed into ... ...es and divines—and will you, whom men call the standard-bearer of the true Protestant faith, be contented to wear the emblem and mark of such a Romish...

...dd, ’ or timber Virgin, who could natu- rally swim. (Knox’s History of the Reformation, b. i.) So, ye of Chateau-Vieux, tug patiently, not without hop... ...e, would not specially give heed: to troubles of Uzez, troubles of Nismes, Protestant and Catholic, Pa- triot and Aristocrat; to troubles of Marseille... ... the religious string: “True Priests maltreated, false Priests in- truded, Protestants (once dragooned) now triumphing, things sacred given to the dog...

...h had Port de la Sangle; the Germans, and the few English knights whom the Reformation had left, were charged with the defense of the Port of the Borg... ...31, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should have its own reli... ...ate should have its own religion, Lowenburg, a city of Silesia, originally Protestant, had passed into the hands of the Emperor’s Roman Catholic party...

...nt learning; those mighty intellects of our own country that succeeded the Reformation, the translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Spenser, the Dramat... ...resented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant apprehension there will appear something unnatu- ral in the earn... ...rmined perseverance in enormous guilt. But religion in Italy is not, as in Protestant countries, a cloak to be worn on particular days; or a passport ... ...the — of — 1821; and was buried in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the Protestants in that city, under the pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, a... ...ses. 569 Shelley A seasonable time for masquers this! When Englishmen and Protestants should sit dust on their dishonoured heads ... ...ARCHY CHY CHY CHY CHY: : : : : When all the fools are whipped, and all the Protestant writ- ers, while the knaves are whipping the fools ever since a ...