An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College: August 25, 1835, Volume 15, Issue 4 |
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... Luther present a most illustrious example of the efficacy of a diffusion of knowledge , of an appeal to the popular mind , —in breaking the yoke of the oppressor and establishing a rational freedom . When he commenced the great ...
... Luther present a most illustrious example of the efficacy of a diffusion of knowledge , of an appeal to the popular mind , —in breaking the yoke of the oppressor and establishing a rational freedom . When he commenced the great ...
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... Luther found himself , he called around him not so much the masters of the Greek and Latin wisdom , through the study of the ancient languages , as he did the mass of his own countrymen , by his translation of the Bible . It would have ...
... Luther found himself , he called around him not so much the masters of the Greek and Latin wisdom , through the study of the ancient languages , as he did the mass of his own countrymen , by his translation of the Bible . It would have ...
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... their rights . For a few are concentrated the delights , the honors , and the excitements of life ; -for all the * Luther's Werke , Th . x . 524 . rest remains a heritage of unenlightened subjection and un- rewarded 10.
... their rights . For a few are concentrated the delights , the honors , and the excitements of life ; -for all the * Luther's Werke , Th . x . 524 . rest remains a heritage of unenlightened subjection and un- rewarded 10.
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... Luther , like an avenging angel , burst upon the world , and denounced the corruptions of the church , and rallied the host of the faithful , with a voice which might almost call up those ashes from their watery grave , and form and ...
... Luther , like an avenging angel , burst upon the world , and denounced the corruptions of the church , and rallied the host of the faithful , with a voice which might almost call up those ashes from their watery grave , and form and ...
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