Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in Poland: And of the Influence which the Scriptural Doctrines Have Exercised on that Country in Literary, Moral, and Political Respects, Volumen 2author and sold, 1840 |
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Página 194 - But a more striking fact is that, from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth...
Página 141 - For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man: God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world...
Página 21 - Spanish languages ; and some of them spoko our own tongne with such purity, that they might be taken for men educated on the banks of the Seine and the Loire, rather than for inhabitants of a country watered by the Vistula and the Dnieper. They have quite shamed our courtiers, who are not only ignorant themselves, but are, moreover, declared enemies of every thing called knowledge. They could never answer any question addressed to them by these foreigners, otherwise than by a sig", or blushing with...
Página 319 - Dresden. and master of a school there. Having at an early period of his life conceived a design to introduce a new method of teaching languages; he published some essays for this purpose, and prepared other pieces on the same subject, which were destroyed in 1621, when the Spaniards plundered his library, after having taken the city. The outlawry of all the Protestant ministers of Bohemia and Moravia by the edict of 1624, compelled Comenius, with many others, to seek refuge in the mountains of Bohemia,...
Página 399 - I must own, that, generally, they are a pattern of the fair way of disputing and debating matters of religion, without heat and unseemly reflections upon their adversaries. They generally argue matters with that temper and gravity, and with that freedom from passion and transport, which becomes a serious and weighty argument...
Página 142 - Who suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into heaven, he sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
Página 389 - ... of death. There was granted, however, to those who should persevere in that sect, a term of three years for the sale of their property and the recovery of their dues. Perfect security was promised to them during that term, but the exercise of their religion was prohibited, and they were not allowed to take any part in the affairs of the country. This enactment was not based on political considerations, neither did it impute to the Socinians any act of treason, but...
Página 16 - There were already at Warsaw many armed gentlemen and many lords, accompanied by a great number of their friends or vassals, who had arrived from all parts of the kingdom. The plain where they had pitched their tents, and where the diet was to take place, had all the appearance of a camp. They were seen walking about with long swords at their sides, and sometimes they marched in troops, armed with pikes, muskets, arrows, and javelins. Some of them, besides the armed men whom they brought for their...
Página 33 - This bold step created great confusion ; the Romanists were terror-struck, and dared not to oppose the high-minded Palatine of Cracow, who remained firm, although some protestants, as Zborowski and Radziwill, began to waver. The king was obliged fully to repeat his oath of Paris, and the generous act of Firley insured the triumph of the cause of religious liberty.