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In after-times men of merit, such as John Huss and Cardinal Cajetan, bewailed both the time lost in the most innocent games, and the disastrous passions which are thereby excited.
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On old John Huss, they actually dug up his dead corpse and burned it because they couldn't do it while he was alive.
Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is
Les Miserables 2008
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John Huss for a heretick; 40 the stories of his own party style him a martyr.
Religio Medici 2007
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The great Council of Constance, in 1414, contented itself with dismissing Pope John XXIII., convicted of a thousand crimes, but had John Huss and Jerome of Prague burned for being obstinate; obstinacy being a much more grievous crime than either murder, rape, simony, or sodomy.
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Arnold of Brescia, John Huss, and Jerome of Prague did not come quite apropos; the people were not then sufficiently enlightened; the invention of printing had not then laid the abuses complained of before the eyes of every one.
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John Huss and Jerome of Prague, by priests and monks; and against the king of England, Charles I., by fanatical citizens.
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John Huss, who lighted the fires of religious and civil liberty in
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Goethe evidently alludes to Pythagoras (as well perhaps as to John Huss and others who found their death at the stake) in some well-known lines, which may be roughly thus translated:
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The victims of persecution, however, were not so numerous in Bohemia, until after the burning of John Huss and Jerom of Prague.
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