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A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,…
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With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for…
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A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
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But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of…
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The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry…
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The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but…
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of…
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven,…
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Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to…
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Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
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Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may…
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By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate…
— John Bagot Glubb
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If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,…
— Hans Bethe
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The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of…
— John Foxe
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A…
— Hakim
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
— Democritus
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Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language…
— Ismail Merchant
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One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time,…
— Oliver Stone
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through…
— Susan Vreeland
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