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  • Canadian sources for baking are amazing ... even Rose Reisman's Divine Indulgences is fantastic and it is all low-fat baking.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Canadian sources for baking are amazing ... even Rose Reisman's Divine Indulgences is fantastic and it is all low-fat baking.

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  • It happened, while he was yet only beginning his vast work of awakening the nation, that an impudent fellow named TETZEL, a friar of very bad character, came into his neighbourhood selling what were called Indulgences, by wholesale, to raise money for beautifying the great Cathedral of St. Peter's, at Rome.

    A child`s history of England 1852

  • It happened, while he was yet only beginning his vast work of awakening the nation, that an impudent fellow named TETZEL, a friar of very bad character, came into his neighbourhood selling what were called Indulgences, by wholesale, to raise money for beautifying the great Cathedral of St. Peter's, at Rome.

    A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841

  • "Indulgences" had been first granted to pilgrims and

    Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

  • Lauderdale drifted into a policy of alternate "Indulgences" or tolerations, and of repression, which had the desired effect, at the maximum of cost to justice and decency.

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

  • "Indulgences," said he, "are the most precious and sublime of God's gifts."

    A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852

  • TETZEL, a friar of very bad character, came into his neighbourhood selling what were called Indulgences, by wholesale, to raise money for beautifying the great Cathedral of St. Peter’s, at Rome.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • They were, indeed, "Indulgences," or "Pardons" for various sins mentioned in the

    Exiled for the Faith A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • They were, indeed, "Indulgences", or "Pardons" for various sins mentioned in the

    Villegagnon A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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