An Ecclesiastical History, from the Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: In which the Rise, Progress, and Variations of Church Power, are Considered in Their Connexion with the State of Learning and Philosophy, and the Political History of Europe During that Period, Volume 2T. Tegg and Son, 1838 - Church history |
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... rendered capable of rising to the highest ecclesiastical honours . XI . The prodigious swarms of monks that overspread monastic orders . Europe were universally considered as cumberers of the ground , and occasioned murmurs and ...
... rendered capable of rising to the highest ecclesiastical honours . XI . The prodigious swarms of monks that overspread monastic orders . Europe were universally considered as cumberers of the ground , and occasioned murmurs and ...
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... rendered them inaccessible to that auspicious light of improved science , whose salutary beams had already been felt in several of the European provinces . The instructors of youth , dignified with the venerable titles of Artists ...
... rendered them inaccessible to that auspicious light of improved science , whose salutary beams had already been felt in several of the European provinces . The instructors of youth , dignified with the venerable titles of Artists ...
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... rendered them incapable of investigating , gave a loose to their vain and irregular fancies in the pursuit of mysterious significations . The greatest part of the public teachers belonged to those classes of divines which we have ...
... rendered them incapable of investigating , gave a loose to their vain and irregular fancies in the pursuit of mysterious significations . The greatest part of the public teachers belonged to those classes of divines which we have ...
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... rendered sin- gularly nice and critical , was left undecided . Hoffman , at that time rector of the university of Leipsic , and who had been also appointed judge of the arguments alleged on both sides , refused to tell to whom the ...
... rendered sin- gularly nice and critical , was left undecided . Hoffman , at that time rector of the university of Leipsic , and who had been also appointed judge of the arguments alleged on both sides , refused to tell to whom the ...
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... rendered him , perhaps beyond comparison , the brightest ornament of the protestant cause . Our learned historian does not seem to acknowledge this with pleasure , as the Ger- mans and Swiss contend about the honour of having given the ...
... rendered him , perhaps beyond comparison , the brightest ornament of the protestant cause . Our learned historian does not seem to acknowledge this with pleasure , as the Ger- mans and Swiss contend about the honour of having given the ...
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