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Such things will cease to be written when men perceive that truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
The Protestants never occupied a more triumphant position, and their prospects were never brighter, than in the summer of 1572.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
In Italy, where the life of a heretic was cheap, their wholesale destruction was confessed a highly politic and ingenious act.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
Judged by its immediate result, the massacre of St. Bartholomew was a measure weakly planned and irresolutely executed, which deprived Protestantism of its political leaders, and left it for a time to the control of zealots.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
The worst criminals were not the men who did the deed. The crime of mobs and courtiers, infuriated by the lust of vengeance and of power, is not so strange a portent as the exultation of peaceful men, influenced by no present injury or momentary rage, but by the permanent and incurable perversion of moral sense wrought by a distorted piety.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
A time came when the Catholics, having long relied on force, were compelled to appeal to opinion. That which had been defiantly acknowledged and defended required to be ingeniously explained away. The same motive which had justified the murder now prompted the lie.
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
These things were repeated so often that they have been sometimes believed; and men have fallen into this way of speaking whose sincerity was unimpeachable, and who were not shaken in their religion by the errors or the vices of Popes.
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