Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest. The Deputy asked him glumly, "What have you done with the barbed wire?" In reply the lawyer handed Lussu an old edition of a 16th-Century book, made him read the title. It was: The Ultimate Profession of Faith of Simon Sinai, of Lucca, first Roman Catholic, then Calvinist, then Lutheran, then again Catholic, but always an Atheist...
Nonetheless Geneva's rugged, Calvinist and God-fearing citizens who normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute...
Catholics, Bolsheviks & Calvinist. The moneyed Queen was credited by many of her subjects with taking Professor Aalberse neatly into camp and preserving her money on gold by the following maneuver: Her favorite statesman, ruthless, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrikus Colijn, who speaks English with a crusty Scottish accent, suddenly announced that he was not receiving adequate support from the Catholic members of his coalition, abruptly resigned. Thus ambitious Professor Aalberse was confronted with a surprise opportunity to form a Cabinet before his Catholics had time to organize a coalition. It turned out that Professor Aalberse would have to take five Communist...
...restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there forgotten until 1823, when it was discovered and translated. But so firmly fixed is Milton's reputation as a Calvinist poet, says Belloc. that even now few people know that Milton put himself on record for polygamy, definitive death, a finite...
Perhaps it was the influence of a pretty woman in the days when women were few in the Bay Colony, possibly it was Anne Hutchinson's reputation as the best mid-wife in New England, or it may have been a natural revolt from the overly-strict Calvinist doctrines of the Puritans that was responsible for the growth of a sect which was nearly successful in gaining control of the legislature. On that control rested the fate of Harvard, for learning was a thing to be abhorred as from the Devil. It could only lead to confusion, and, never having...