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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... was ready to treat the profession of Protestantism as a considerable offence; but as the Publican was nearer the kingdom of heaven than the Pharisee, so the manufacturers of Ghent were protected from fanaticism by their worldliness. They were willing to continue Catholics themselves; and to maintain the Catholic Church in all its dignity and honour; but they did not desire to ruin themselves and their country by the death or exile of their most industrious workmen. Between this point of view and that of the Spaniard there was an irreconcilable difference. The Catholic religion was of course true, paramount--whatever else it wished to be called; but they believed in it as established religions always are believed in by men who have much else of a useful kind to think about. To the Spaniard, on the other hand, his religion was the all in all. It did not change his nature--because liis mind was fastened on the theological aspect of it. He was cruel, sensual, covetous, unscrupulous. In his hunger for gold he had exterminated whole races and nations in the New World. But his avarice was like the avarice of the spendthrift. Of the careful daily concentration of his faculties in the pursuit of wealth by industrious methods he was incapable. The daily occupation of the Fleming was with his ledger or his factory; the Spaniard passed from the mass and the confessional to the hunting-field, the tilt-yard, or the field of battle. The most important of the national characteristics were combined in the person of Philip II. The energy, the high-mettled spirit, the humour, the romance, the dash and power of the Spanish character had no place in him. He was slow, hesitating, and in common matters uncertain. If not deficient in personal courage, he was without military tas...
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First published between 1858 and 1870, Froude's influential twelve-volume history of the English Reformation contends that Protestantism paved the way for modernity in England. Volume 9 covers Mary Stuart's marriage to Bothwell and her subsequent abdication, Protestantism in Europe, and the downfall of the Duke of Norfolk.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1459081390
- ISBN 13 9781459081390
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages178
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