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[This calling John Knox a "stranger" sounds to us like a piece of impudence, but may bring home to us that Scotland was then to Englishmen a foreign country.] 2.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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[This calling John Knox a “stranger” sounds to us like a piece of impudence, but may bring home to us that Scotland was then to
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878
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Other religious texts include those probably held and used by ministers and officers of the church: McLauchlan (1873), commonly called John Knox's Liturgy, which was translated directly into Gaelic from the 1567 Latin text, and MacDhomnuill's (1804) Confession of Faith seem central to the propagation of Presbyterianism in New Zealand.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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There is no dramatic climax, far less a tragic one, in the dethronement of Mary, and the proclamation by John Knox, which is chiefly an assertion of popular sovereignty, and the triumph of the Presbyterian Church.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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"John Knox," says Froude, "was the one man without whom Scotland as the modern world has known it, would have had no existence."
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Innes, Taylor, reference to 'John Knox' by, 209 fn.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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"John Knox", said Acton (History of Freedom, p. 44),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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R.S. Rait: "John Knox," in _Quarterly Review_, vol. 205, 1906.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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But we now miss the frequent references to "John Knox," and his doings, which must have been vigorous during the troubles of 1565, after the arrival in Scotland of
John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878
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Protestants during a period of seven years — viz., from 1557 to 1564, when it was superseded by the “Order of Geneva,” [226] or what is called John Knox’s Liturgy, which he had prepared for the use of the
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
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