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...of Rotterdam (1466/69-1536). It is considered one of the most influential works of literature in Western civilization and one of the catalysts of the Protestant Reformation. It starts off with a satirical learned encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-de...

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...and thinking. In the towns where he stayed, Montaigne took care to see the Protestant divines, to make himself conversant with all their dogmas. He ev... ...ceed, he added: “I assure you that I never knew any man who engaged in the reformation of our Church with greater sincerity, earnestness, and single- ... ...he use and knowledge are imperceptible to us? See, here, an easy and cheap reformation. If instruction were at all necessary in this case, I should be... ...es abun- dance.”—Idem, ibid., vi. 2.] And I am very well pleased that this reformation in me has fallen out in an age naturally inclined to avarice, a... ...m- mand of the Duc de Guise and the Constable de Montmorenci, defeated the Protestants, commanded by the Prince de Conde. See Sismondi, Hist. des Fran... ...and laid asleep their ardour. Item, will not posterity say that our modern reformation has been wonderfully delicate and exact, in having not only com... ...h great spiritual consolation, humble acknowledgment of the divine favour, reformation of manners, and singular 409 Montaigne modesty. I do not inten...

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...hich she represented herself to be. No one knew what her faith was—Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox. But one fact was indubitable—she was in amicable... ...ifficult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reformation and salvation.” Though Alexey Alexandrovitch was perfectly aw... ...he could not exert any moral influence over his wife, that such an attempt at reformation could lead to nothing but falsity; though in passing through ...

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... reading through the Captivity was completely converted to the cause of the Reformation and became one of Luther’s ablest co-workers in the movement... ...er’s works (1915). The third came from the facile pen of Bertram Lee Woolf (Reformation Writings of Martin Luther: Vol. I, The Basis of the Protesta... ... Lee Woolf (Reformation Writings of Martin Luther: Vol. I, The Basis of the Protestant Reformation) and was published by the Lutterworth Press of Lon... ...(Reformation Writings of Martin Luther: Vol. I, The Basis of the Protestant Reformation) and was published by the Lutterworth Press of London in 1952... ... 58 John Wycliffe (d. 1384), the most prominent English reformer before the Reformation and keenest of medieval critics of the doctrine of transubst...

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...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...

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...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...

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...rely anxious for their son’s religious principles to risk the contagion of Protestant association by sending him elsewhere. From the scene 4 of his d... ...ect; and, secondly, the fact that his son was an only child. Had he been a Protestant, or had he, though a Papist, been burthened with a large family ... ...the one, the starry lustre of the other, blended with the convul- sions of reformation, or with the aurora of ascending sci- ence, in too kindly and g... ...ll demanded. There is a memorable correspondency throughout all members of Protestant Christendom in whatsoever relates to literature and intellectual... ...hat mighty event reached us both, reached us all, we may say, (speaking of Protestant states,) at the same moment, by the same tremendous galvanism. T...

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......... 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................................................

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...................................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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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............................................................. 50 Siegfried as Protestant.................................................................... ...rical design of The Rhine Gold, The Valkyries, and Siegfried. Siegfried as Protestant THE PHILOSOPHICALLY FERTILE element in the original project of S... ...tworthy interpreter of God and revelation than the Church. This was called Protestant- ism; and though the Protestants were not strong enough for thei... ... has justified the direction it took. Nowadays the supernatural element in Protestantism has perished; and if every man’s private judgment is still to... ... is not a more extreme proposition than the old one about the will of God) Protestantism must take a fresh step in advance, and become Anarchism. Whic... ...ity of his prodigious artistic power by the first fierce attack of the New Reformation, gave no quarter to the antagonist of his hero. His Wotan, whom...

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...eet with yet) could, in the name of the Clergy, insist on having the Anti- protestant laws, which condemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ ... ..., has got her Turgot made Control- ler-General; and there shall be endless reformation. Unhappily this Turgot could continue only twenty months. With ... ...fectibility say what it will, discontents cannot be wanting: your promised Reformation is so indispensable; yet it comes not; who will begin it—with h... ...rs, to have it thought great; now, in the Clergy’s name, demanding to have Protestant death- penalties ‘put in execution;’ no flaunting it in the Oeil... ... Philosophes, let a liberal Edict walk in front of it, for emancipation of Protestants; let a liberal Promise guard the rear of it, that when our Loan... ...at final 1792, the States-General shall be convoked. Such liberal Edict of Protestant Emancipation, the time hav- ing come for it, shall cost a Lomeni... ...onial words, the purpose of the royal breast is signified:—Two Edicts, for Protestant Emanci- pation, for Successive Loan: of both which Edicts our t... ...redd, ’ or timber Virgin, who could naturally swim. (Knox’s History of the Reformation, b. i.) So, ye of Chateau- Vieux, tug patiently, not without ho...

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...upon every branch of social economy, upon every organ of civilization, his reformations and advances are equally due; due as to all, if due as to any.... ...s of this kind are universal and endless. No land, the most austere in its Protestantism, but has adopted these superstitions: and everywhere by those... ... their arms, solemnly stepped on shore from the vessels of Christendom. We Protestants know better: we understand the impossibil- ity of supposing suc... ...—not, indeed, as to its spirit, but as to its form and local connections—a Protestant di- vine of much merit, and chiefly in what regards practice, an... ...site feelings. But there was another simultaneous omen, which affected the Protestant enthusiasts, and the superstitious, whether Catholic or Prot- es...

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...meet with yet) could, in the name of the Clergy, insist on having the Anti-protestant laws, which condemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ ... ..., has got her Turgot made Con- troller-General; and there shall be endless reformation. Unhappily this Turgot could continue only twenty months. With ... ...ctibility say what it will, discontents cannot be wanting: your prom- ised Reformation is so indispensable; yet it comes not; who will begin it—with h... ...rs, to have it thought great; now, in the Clergy’s name, demanding to have Protestant death-penalties ‘put in ex- 71 Thomas Carlyle ecution;’ no flau... ...at final 1792, the States-General shall be convoked. Such liberal Edict of Protestant Emancipation, the time having come for it, shall cost a Lomenie ... ...onial words, the purpose of the royal breast is signified:—Two Edicts, for Protestant Eman- cipation, for Successive Loan: of both which Edicts our t... ...arlyle The Parlement will nowise acquiesce meekly; and set to register the Protestant Edict, and do its other work, in salutary fear of these three Le...

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... which rose the frameworks of many revolutionary eras, including:  The Reformation,  The Industrial Revolution  Modern science  Democracy ... ...he Lollards had to go even deeper into hiding. The “Morning Star” of the Reformation In 1428, the pope ordered Wycliffe‘s remains disinterred and... ...ranslation of the Bible into English, he became the ―Morning Star‖ of the Reformation. Martyrs‘ blood christened newer translations because the c... ... the first man to print the New Testament in English. A sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, he was so fluent in eight languages that any one of t... ...d strong opinions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to l... ... 22 Neither Roman Catholic nor truly Protestant, it became known as the Anglican Church or the Church of Englan... ...ward a middle class of business and industrial leaders. o Bolstered the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, modern science, and democracy. o... ...owerful institution in the West for a thousand years, declined during the Reformation because of Martin Luther‘s ninety-five theses meeting with the...

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...cceeds him. — Troubles in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is c... ...great or remarkable occurred in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation had not an important share. All the events of this period, if t... ...hiller clusively, the whole of its immense political power. In France, the Reformation had en- kindled a civil war which, under four stormy reigns, sh... ...a century rendered it the scene of the most mournful disorders. It was the Reformation, too, that rendered the Span- ish yoke intolerable to the Flemi... ...ened Elizabeth, were mainly intended in revenge for her hav- ing taken his Protestant subjects under her protection, and placing herself at the head o... ...e threw up a firm barrier against po- litical oppression. It was, too, the Reformation principally that first drew the northern pow- ers, Denmark and ... ...Sweden, into the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, it on the other was i... ... of success, made an attempt on the inde- pendence of the German States, a Protestant league would scarcely have rushed to arms in defence of freedom ... ...he possession of the imperial throne — a dignity it was impos- sible for a Protestant to hold, (for with what con- sistency could an apostate from the...

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...; and the facts set down above were one and all collected from the lips of Protestants who had opposed the father in his life. Yet I am strangely dece... ..., no doubt at all he was a ‘coarse, headstrong’ fisherman! Yet even in our Protestant Bibles Peter is called Saint. Damien was dirty. He was. Think of... ...E IN THEIR OWN INOCENT SELF DEFENCE AND DEFFENCE OF THE COVENANTED WORK OF REFORMATION BY THOMAS DALZEEL OF BINS UPON THE 28 OF NOVEMBER 1666. REV. 12... ... signed. In that vault, as the story goes, John Knox took hid- ing in some Reformation broil. From that window Burke the murderer looked out many a ti...