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Anything of a heretical nature he should publish now might possibly be challenged by the German and Swiss Reformers; but they were heretics in the eyes of the Viennese, and, provided he did not openly proclaim himself the author, their ill report, if perchance it ever reached France, would do the author of the ‘Restoration of Christianity’ no harm, if it did not even tend to exalt him among orthodox adherents of the Church of Rome.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis
It had, in fact, been assumed that this war would resemble its predecessors in every respect, and no one was prepared for a world war.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann
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