Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Volume 2

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Page 43 - ... they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 270 - To THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE JAMES, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE, AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c., the Translators of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy and peace, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 89 - But this consequence was quickly retorted upon those that imagined it ; for they who denied the metamorphosis of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ...
Page 84 - November, this same year, he published a special edict commanding his spiritual subjects to acknowledge his power of delivering from all the punishments due to sin and transgression of every kind.
Page 72 - The two grand points that were proposed to the deliberation of this famous council, were the union of the Greek and Latin churches, and the reformation of the church universal both in its head and in its members, according to the resolution that had been taken in the council of Constance. For that the Roman...
Page 196 - The diffusion of the noise varies according to the state of the atmosphere and the direction of the wind, but it may be heard under favourable circumstances through a distance of forty-six miles : at Toronto, across Lake Ontario. To the geologist the Niagara falls have interest, on account of the movement which it is supposed has taken place in their position. The force of the waters appears to be wearing...
Page 9 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Page 60 - V, John XXII, Benedict XII, Clement VI, Innocent VI, Urban V, and Gregory XI; and during this period (1309-77; the so-called Babylonian Captivity of the popes) it was a gay and eormpt city.
Page 96 - The Reformation had not been long established in Britain, when the Belgic provinces, united by a respectable confederacy, withdrew from their spiritual allegiance to the Roman pontiff...
Page 96 - That whatsoever they were that should read the Scriptures in the mother tongue, they should' forfeit land, catel, lif, and godes from theyre heyres, for ever; and so be condemned for heretykes to God, enemies to the crowne, and most errant traitors to the lande.

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