| John Marsh - 1840 - 480 pages
...contest, not uncommon in that age, between a Dominican and Franciscan Monk. " Brother Martin," said he, is a man of very fine genius, and these squabbles are the mere effusions of monastic envy." But on being fully informed of its nature and extent, he became alarmed, and summoned Luther, July 1518,... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1842 - 662 pages
...Pin (vol. iii. p. 1 56) ; it was addressed to Leo the Tenth, who at first said, " ' Brother Martin is a man of very fine genius, and these squabbles are the mere effusions of monastic envy;' but who afterwards (when he felt his pontifical chair grow rather uncomfortable under his elegant 'Holiness')... | |
| 1842 - 544 pages
...solemn farce, was not much more elevated than that of Luther, remarked — " Brother Martin is a man of fine genius, and these squabbles are the mere effusions of monastic envy ;" but when he thought it necessary to take some other notice of " Brother Martin," Luther addressed the Pope... | |
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