| 1826 - 870 pages
...-national crime called for national retribution, surely it might be expected to follow in this instance. The massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, as they have been among the worst acts ever perpetrated by a government calling itself Christian,... | |
| Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 496 pages
...thousand. Add to these the persecutions of the Lollards, the fires of our own polluted Smithfield, the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, and even then the dreadful tale of woe, and bloodshed, and torture, and proscription will not... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - France - 1830 - 556 pages
...Madame de Main tenon,* been either accomplished or well educated women, France might have been spared the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the edict of Nantz. The greatest princess in Europe, La Grande Mademoiselle, as she was called, seems to have had... | |
| William Stephen Gilly - Clergy - 1832 - 364 pages
...Protestant Church in 1828, was only 303, less by one half than the number in the very worst times, between the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. A statistique of the number of Roman Catholic Clergy, published by authority in 1829, renders... | |
| Theology - 1837 - 588 pages
...«pirk is part and parcel of Romanism — and is only another manifestation, of that which produced the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the Edict of Nantz.* It is of faith in the papal sect to exterminate heretics; and the people of America have no... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - Great Britain - 1836 - 274 pages
...over England. Is the Pope less regarded now than when Bourbon sacked Rome ? Yet that exploit preceded the massacre of St. Bartholomew and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Constable of Bourbon lived before Sir Phelim O'Neale. The Papacy is as rampant now in Ireland... | |
| Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...creation in the valleys of Piedmont and Savoy — from the fires of Smithfield and Aldham Common — from the massacre of St. Bartholomew and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes — from the prison of the Madiaii and the erection of the guillotine for the punishment of... | |
| Daniel Wilson - Bible - 1845 - 588 pages
...Apollinarian, Eutychian, and Nestorian heresies. She extinguished the Waldenses and Albigenses, defended the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes. She is the orthodox church. She claims antiquity, universality, and general consent. She points... | |
| 1845 - 596 pages
...alarm among the ranks of the Romanists. Popery has seen its old enemy, which it crushed in France by the massacre of St Bartholomew, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in Belgium, by the savage persecutions of the Duke of Alva, rising anew — its former successes... | |
| English literature - 1848 - 556 pages
...distinguished as Mademoiselle de Montpensier ? The two darkest spots in the modern history of France — the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes —were owing to two women — Catherine de Medieis and Madame de Maintenon. Under Louis XV.,... | |
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