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... adhering to our former rule , of not intermeddling with the dis- putes between the Roman and the Anglican church , we made choice of his account of the Massacre of St Bartholomew as the next subject for our critical dissection .
... adhering to our former rule , of not intermeddling with the dis- putes between the Roman and the Anglican church , we made choice of his account of the Massacre of St Bartholomew as the next subject for our critical dissection .
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... given of the St Bartholomew is taken from the Abbé de Caveyrac , a controversial writer of the last century , who annexed to an apology for the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz , published in 1758 , a dissertation on that massacre .
... given of the St Bartholomew is taken from the Abbé de Caveyrac , a controversial writer of the last century , who annexed to an apology for the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz , published in 1758 , a dissertation on that massacre .
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... and had no other fault to find with the massacre , but the extraordinary one , that blood enough * Çaveyrac , xxxvi . Lingard , viii . 520. Caveyrac , liv . 7 was not shed in the course of it ! 96 June Lingard's History of England .
... and had no other fault to find with the massacre , but the extraordinary one , that blood enough * Çaveyrac , xxxvi . Lingard , viii . 520. Caveyrac , liv . 7 was not shed in the course of it ! 96 June Lingard's History of England .
Page 97
We may venture to call Papire Mas- son's Life of Charles IX . an original document , as it was written in 1575 , within three years of the massacre . 6 Dr Lingard tells us , that the particulars he relates of the St Bartholomew are ...
We may venture to call Papire Mas- son's Life of Charles IX . an original document , as it was written in 1575 , within three years of the massacre . 6 Dr Lingard tells us , that the particulars he relates of the St Bartholomew are ...
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6 The supposition that the massacre of St Bartholomew was planned a considerable time before it was carried into exe- cution , is unsupported , ' Dr Lingard tells us , by contem- ' porary authority .
6 The supposition that the massacre of St Bartholomew was planned a considerable time before it was carried into exe- cution , is unsupported , ' Dr Lingard tells us , by contem- ' porary authority .
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