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  • Reformers from the Society realized the importance of household economics to working men and their families and tried augmenting their savings bank plan with publications such as Plain Directions on Domestic Economy, Showing Particularly What are the Cheapest, and Most

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • The question whether or not Margaret ever seriously entertained the thought of abjuring the Church of Rome has been much debated by historians, but that she very much inclined to the opinions of the Reformers is not disputed either by Protestant or Catholic writers; both sides confess the fact.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • Would they be there to join together with Reformers from Quebec just as Baldwin and Lafontaine did so many years ago; there to meet Reformers from the West already in Parliament demanding reform of the federation; there we hope to be joined by Reformers from Atlantic Canada as well; and there to bring constructive changes to the federal system as a whole and to lay the foundations of the new confederation of the 21st century?

    A Fresh Start for Canadians 1996

  • Somebody who presents as a low-key central Canadian moderate, but is able to speak in red-meat social-conservative terms Reformers will love.

    Paul Wells 2010

  • We do believe that some of the people who tried to change the moral ideas of their own age were what we would call Reformers or Pioneers -- people, like William Wiberforce, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Shaftsbury and who had to battle against the prevailing morality of the time, often at great cost to themselves.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The so-called Reformers attacked the Church in her dogma and discipline and despoiled her, as far as lay in their power, of her earthly goods.

    Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 1 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • It is only of late years that the history of the Protestant Reformation is generally being studied from original sources, and that the so-called Reformers, divested of their fictitious greatness and fabulous heroism, are permitted to appear in their own apparel and speak in their own language.

    The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation 2007

  • The so-called Reformers attacked the Church in her dogma and discipline and despoiled her, as far as lay in their power, of her earthly goods.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Thomas Aquinas was a revolutionary and the Reformers were the originators of a biblical Christian culture.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Fred 2007

  • Thomas Aquinas was a revolutionary and the Reformers were the originators of a biblical Christian culture.

    reading Francis Schaeffer Fred 2007

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