Of what man, possessed of such extended yet such disputed authority, can so much be said?
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
Destitute of any pretence of spiritual energy, yet showing a spirit of persecution such as it had never displayed in earlier centuries, its sole activity consisted in hunting to the stake the few men who displayed any symptoms of thinking for themselves in matters of religion.
— from Warwick, the Kingmaker by Charles Oman
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