An Historical Sketch of the Italian Vaudois: From the First Ages of Christianity to the Present Day : with Some Account of Their Ancient Documents |
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... " In the " sacred chronology " of Genebrard , Archbishop of Aix , written in the sixteenth century , it is stated that Claude's " new sect " remained during the tenth and eleventh centu- ries . We COLLATERAL TESTIMONY TO ANTIQUITY. 67 ...
... " In the " sacred chronology " of Genebrard , Archbishop of Aix , written in the sixteenth century , it is stated that Claude's " new sect " remained during the tenth and eleventh centu- ries . We COLLATERAL TESTIMONY TO ANTIQUITY. 67 ...
Page 68
... remained during the tenth and eleventh centu- ries . We therefore possess the authority of two Romish writers that Claude's opinions did not die with him , but continued to exist during the ninth , tenth , and eleventh centuries ...
... remained during the tenth and eleventh centu- ries . We therefore possess the authority of two Romish writers that Claude's opinions did not die with him , but continued to exist during the ninth , tenth , and eleventh centuries ...
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... remained of their records . These most interesting relics were lettered ; and when search was made for them in 1823 , by Dr. Gilly , the seven first packets , the most ancient and valuable of the collection , were missing , whilst the ...
... remained of their records . These most interesting relics were lettered ; and when search was made for them in 1823 , by Dr. Gilly , the seven first packets , the most ancient and valuable of the collection , were missing , whilst the ...
Page 126
... remained uncut in the fields , the clusters of grapes were spoiling on the vines , and the other productions of the soil perished , for lack of hands to gather them in . A dearth followed this plague , as , instead of the former careful ...
... remained uncut in the fields , the clusters of grapes were spoiling on the vines , and the other productions of the soil perished , for lack of hands to gather them in . A dearth followed this plague , as , instead of the former careful ...
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... remained to them . Many , however , were induced by specious pro- mises to return again to their homes ; when on the twenty - fourth of April , a signal was given from the hill near La Tour for a general massa- cre . It commenced ...
... remained to them . Many , however , were induced by specious pro- mises to return again to their homes ; when on the twenty - fourth of April , a signal was given from the hill near La Tour for a general massa- cre . It commenced ...
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Page 130 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 130 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 161 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Page 185 - Of freedom's last abode ; For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our fathers...
Page 127 - Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Page 4 - So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single.
Page 151 - I would speak without any offence to your highness, seeing we believe none of these things were done through any default of yours,) certainly they would be ashamed when they should find that they had contrived nothing, in comparison with these things, that might be reputed barbarous and inhuman.
Page 2 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 12 - Who first beholds the Alps — that mighty chain Of Mountains, stretching on from east to west, So massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal, As to belong rather to Heaven than Earth — But instantly receives into his soul A sense, a feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him 't is a moment Whence he may date henceforward and for ever ? To me they seem'd the barriers of a World, Saying, Thus far, no farther ! and as o'er 1 LaCrgoe.
Page 27 - He found here a plain religion (simplicity is the badge of antiquity,) practised by the Britons, living some of them in the contempt, and many more in the ignorance of worldly vanities. He brought in a religion spun with a coarser thread, though guarded with a finer trimming ; made luscious to the senses with pleasing ceremonies, so that many who could not judge of the goodness were courted with the gaudinesB thereof.