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And in so doing he remarks of Huss, that even if he had been a heretic,
Life of Luther Julius Koestlin
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Childebert and Chlothochar invaded Spain and besieged Saragossa, but were driven back; and it was not till Athanagild called in the armies of Justinian that the confusion and division of Spanish life; between orthodox and heretic,
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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Martin as to their sailing away with the treasure of the dead heretic,
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Go to, Master Zeal, [47] bring forth that heretic,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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The new philosophy, stimulated and hardly impeded by feeble attempts at persecution, was therefore able to overrun the intellectual life of the nation, until it found its most formidable opponent in one who was half its ally, and who had sprung from its midst, the mighty heretic,
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No! Bourne said, but it maintains the queen's title with the help of an arrant heretic,
The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856
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"Take this order," he said, "to the officer in charge of the heretic,
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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