...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ualities and precious gifts of a states- man under the mocking fire of the Calvinist press. Those facts are incontestable. Therefore, to whosoever bur... ...ublic buildings, as if to repair the loss caused by the iconoclasms of the Calvinists, who did as much harm 8 Catherine dé Medici to art as to the bo... ...on of the thoughts which lay buried beneath the rich 61 Balzac and florid Dutch skin of the old man; but he understood well enough the advantage he h... ...he Holy Father as an equal. Vain of his eloquence, and one of the greatest theologians of his time, he kept incessant watch over France and Italy by m... ...inutes of a consultation which were hawked about all Germany, in which the theologians declared that force might be resorted to in order to withdraw t... ..., and immediately advanced. Ambroise, who at this time was inclined to the reformed religion, eventually adopted it; but the friendship of the Guises ... ... in the documents as her daughter-in-law turned to him. “You belong to the Reformed religion?” inquired Mary Stuart of Christophe. “Yes, madame,” he a...

... been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... War- rens, therefore, was more useful to me on this occasion than all the theologians in the world would have been. She, who brought everything into ... ...s and whey. In this respect physicians and philosophers differ widely from theologians; admitting the truth only of what they can ex- plain, and makin... ...s, and piqued himself upon his having cultivated his rational faculty: his Dutch appearance, yellow complexion, and silent and close disposition, favo... ...ttered, civilities signify but little. Yet, after my solemn union with the reformed church, and living in a Prot- estant country, I could not, without... ...already knew I was not one. Were they desirous of proving I was not a good Calvinist? Of what consequence was this to them? It was taking upon themsel...

...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylva- nia S... ...o feel directly or in- directly more or less of its influence. Against the reformed doctrine and its adher- ents, the House of Austria directed, almos... ...y connected with it, vain and powerless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so... ...in defence of freedom of belief; but for the ambi- tion of the Guises, the Calvinists in France would never have beheld a Conde or a Coligny at their ... ...of Geneva, for instance, of England, of Germany, or of Holland, the French Calvinist possessed a common point of union which he had not with his own c... ...he support- ers of Popery, but their countries were far from being so. The reformed opinions had penetrated even these, and favoured by Ferdinand’s ne... ...ught to propitiate by embrac- ing the Calvinist religion. Both Spanish and Dutch armies appeared, but, as it seemed, only to make conquests for themse... ...d on adoration. Denmark and Sweden, Holland and Venice, and several of the Dutch states, acknowledged him as lawful sov- ereign, and Frederick now pre...

...ed edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; ...

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by... ...SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...lais’ works were reprinted when no editions were appearing in France. This Dutch transla- tion was published at Amsterdam in 1682, by J. Tenhoorn. The... ...Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify the translator, and state the value to be as- ... ..., but, like Erasmus, between the two extremes. He was neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, neither German nor Genevese, and it is quite natural that his wo... ...re and liking; but, since that of their own accord and free will they have reformed themselves, their accoutrement is in manner as followeth. They wor... ...t afterwards to the Sorbonne, where he maintained argument against all the theologians or divines, for the space of six weeks, from four o’clock in th...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

...ated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...o ornament the walls of his office and study. He pos- sessed the beautiful Dutch editions of the Latin classics, which, for the sake of outward unifor... ...ieces, still life, and figures quietly employed, after the mod- els of the Dutch. But now, by the new arrangement, by more convenient room, and still ... ...n,” a book designed to advance tolerance, especially between Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. ... ...etween Lutherans and Calvinists. But here he got in a controversy with the theologians: one Dr. Benner of Giessen, in particular, wrote against him. V... ... side-board, yet unenjoyed. Hofrath Huesgen, not born in Frankfort, of the Reformed* religion, and therefore incapable of public office, including the... ...cellent jurist, he man- *Eyes, not hands.—Trans. *That is to say, he was a Calvinist, as distinguished from a Lutheran.—Trans. 159 Goethe aged to exe... ...ound in all the faculties,—nay, in all classes and trades. In this way the theologians could not help inclining to what is called natural religion; an...

...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...