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  • The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.   (source)
  • Unlike most involved in the Reformation, Luther argued that free will was the central issue.
  • "five seconds gained," while Willem read aloud from a history of the Dutch Reformation.†   (source)
  • The Reformation opened the door a little wider.†   (source)
  • A pre-Reformation Loyola.†   (source)
  • MORE (Excited and angry) All right I will-this isn't "Reformation," this is war against the Church!†   (source)
  • In brief, soldiers fought for the Spanish Counter-Reformation, for Napoleon, for Garibaldi—and now we have Prussian soldiers.†   (source)
  • Reformation may be its cure; and I could reform — I have strength yet for that — if — but where is the use of thinking of it, hampered, burdened, cursed as I am?†   (source)
  • So that I may attribute all the changes of Religion in the world, to one and the some cause; and that is, unpleasing Priests; and those not onely amongst Catholiques , but even in that Church that hath presumed most of Reformation.†   (source)
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  • The reformation of our travell'd gallants,
    That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.   (source)
    the reformation = the attempt to reform or improve
  • Which reformation must be sudden too,
    My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses
    Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,
    But stop their mouth with stubborn bits and spur 'em
    Till they obey the manage.   (source)
    reformation = attempt to reform or improve
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  • The Dutch Reformed Church, born in the Netherlands during the Reformation, had spread throughout Europe and around the world, and even eventually became the official religion of apartheid South Africa.†   (source)
  • The stern look of Mary Magdalene rebuked them; her former line of work and her harsh reformation shamed them.†   (source)
  • But if a man reforms, doesn't he deserve to have his reformation credited sooner or later?†   (source)
  • Historically their zeal stems not from the strength of the Catholic Church but from its weakness in the face of the Reformation.†   (source)
  • It was central to what we call the Reformation.†   (source)
  • During the Reformation, theologians looked to the old Hebrew Bible.†   (source)
  • Soon after the Reformation a few people came over into the new world for conscience sake.†   (source)
  • We have gone through a pretense of truce and reformation, straight into deadlock.†   (source)
  • As if the ripple at its widest desired to be verified by a reformation of itself, to be drawn in and drawn out through its point of origin.†   (source)
  • He denounced Cal's godlessness, demanded his reformation.†   (source)
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  • England needs an heir; certain measures, perhaps regrettable, perhaps not— (Pompous) there is much in the Church that needs reformation, Thomas— (MORE smiles) All right, regrettable!†   (source)
  • Since the days of the Reformation, Protestantism has been characterized by its emphasis on faith.†   (source)
  • Martin Luther deleted the Apocrypha from the Reformation's Bible and later Calvin declared that the Apocrypha absolutely must not serve as the basis for convictions in matters of faith.†   (source)
  • Not until the Reformation in the sixteenth century was there any protest against the idea that people could only obtain salvation through the Church.†   (source)
  • Thus the basis was created for two powerful upheavals in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, namely, the Renaissance and the Reformation.†   (source)
  • The music, bells, candles, gold, and silver were "so calculated to take in mankind," that he wondered the Reformation had ever succeeded.†   (source)
  • He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos.†   (source)
  • In the first half of the month of January, still penitently true to the New Year's reformation, he begot a child: by Spring, when it was evident that Eliza was again pregnant, he had hurled himself into an orgy to which even a notable four months' drunk in 1896 could offer no precedent.†   (source)
  • That was the beginning of your reformation.†   (source)
  • He thirsted for that reformation and renewal.†   (source)
  • You must make some reformation in that quarter.†   (source)
  • Certainly self-reformation and self-purification.†   (source)
  • In short, how do you know that such a reformation will be a benefit to man?†   (source)
  • —it might be a good idea for you to see Dr. Gottlieb and start off your reformation by apologizing—†   (source)
  • It is a reformation.†   (source)
  • A RETRIEVED REFORMATION.†   (source)
  • Hence, although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to despair.†   (source)
  • The corpses of those old fitful passions which had lain inanimate amid the lines of his face ever since his reformation seemed to wake and come together as in a resurrection.†   (source)
  • In something less than an hour-and-a-half he had skirted the south of the King's Hintock estates and ascended to the untoward solitude of Cross-in-Hand, the unholy stone whereon Tess had been compelled by Alec d'Urberville, in his whim of reformation, to swear the strange oath that she would never wilfully tempt him again.†   (source)
  • "Yet bethink thee, reverend father," said Mont-Fitchet, "the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise."†   (source)
  • But if I survive the duel, I will hide it away, and he will not know, and I will not tell him until he reforms, and I see that his reformation is going to be permanent.†   (source)
  • A plague upon your reformation!†   (source)
  • She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.†   (source)
  • To do Dinah justice, she had, at irregular periods, paroxyms of reformation and arrangement, which she called "clarin' up times," when she would begin with great zeal, and turn every drawer and closet wrong side outward, on to the floor or tables, and make the ordinary confusion seven-fold more confounded.†   (source)
  • [Footnote g: The emigrants were, for the most part, godly Christians from the North of England, who had quitted their native country because they were "studious of reformation, and entered into covenant to walk with one another according to the primitive pattern of the Word of God."†   (source)
  • In adopting this course, I am not casting off a guilty wife, but giving her a chance of amendment; and, indeed, difficult as the task will be to me, I shall devote part of my energies to her reformation and salvation.†   (source)
  • "Sir," I answered, "a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature.†   (source)
  • I do not expect that you, who always rebelled against my just authority, exerted for your benefit and reformation, should owe me any good-will now.†   (source)
  • Though Alexey Alexandrovitch was perfectly aware that he could not exert any moral influence over his wife, that such an attempt at reformation could lead to nothing but falsity; though in passing through these difficult moments he had not once thought of seeking guidance in religion, yet now, when his conclusion corresponded, as it seemed to him, with the requirements of religion, this religious sanction to his decision gave him complete satisfaction, and to some extent restored his…†   (source)
  • She rated Lady Russell's influence highly; and as to the severe degree of self-denial which her own conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficulty in persuading them to a complete, than to half a reformation.†   (source)
  • …what is there to wonder at in that, since I had succeeded in so corrupting myself, since I was so out of touch with "real life," as to have actually thought of reproaching her, and putting her to shame for having come to me to hear "fine sentiments"; and did not even guess that she had come not to hear fine sentiments, but to love me, because to a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.†   (source)
  • Now, on the other side, take the Church's own view of crime: is it not bound to renounce the present almost pagan attitude, and to change from a mechanical cutting off of its tainted member for the preservation of society, as at present, into completely and honestly adopting the idea of the regeneration of the man, of his reformation and salvation?"†   (source)
  • (2) The purification and reformation of oneself for its reception, and (3) The improvement of the human race by striving for such purification.†   (source)
  • Calling in the aid of religion, I propos'd to them the proclaiming a fast, to promote reformation, and implore the blessing of Heaven on our undertaking.†   (source)
  • This was the only country that the reformation never reached.†   (source)
  • I did not really know Captain Lemesurier at all intimately, but he was a pleasant young fellow, somewhat dreamy in manner, and I remembered hearing that he belonged to an old and exclusive family with a property in Northumberland which dated from before the Reformation.†   (source)
  • But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • You are sure it is somewhere in your mind near the top——you saw it there the other day when you were looking up the beginnings of the Reformation.†   (source)
  • The invention of the printing press and the Reformation are and shall remain Central Europe's two most sublime contributions to humanity.†   (source)
  • The mysticism of the late Middle Ages, however, had demonstrated its liberating tendency by acting as a forerunner of the Reformation—the Reformation, hee hee, which for its part had been a tangled snarl of freedom and medieval reaction.†   (source)
  • ——if that learned man would only talk, instead of allowing himself to be talked to by Mr. Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.†   (source)
  • An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monachism, of the hermit Antony;[201] the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox;[202] Methodism, of Wesley;[203] Abolition, of Clarkson.†   (source)
  • He was very knowing about doctrines, and used to call 'em the bulwarks of the Reformation; but I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.†   (source)
  • It is true, Mr. Ryde insisted strongly on the doctrines of the Reformation, visited his flock a great deal in their own homes, and was severe in rebuking the aberrations of the flesh——put a stop, indeed, to the Christmas rounds of the church singers, as promoting drunkenness and too light a handling of sacred things.†   (source)
  • We learn that Luther had a hot temper and said such and such things; we learn that Rousseau was suspicious and wrote such and such books; but we do not learn why after the Reformation the peoples massacred one another, nor why during the French Revolution they guillotined one another.†   (source)
  • Let other nations think of retribution and the letter of the law, we will cling to the spirit and the meaning——the salvation and the reformation of the lost.†   (source)
  • The last news which I hear from Edinburgh is, that the gentleman who fills the situation of Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, [7] is the best amateur draftsman in that kingdom, and that much is expected from his skill and zeal in delineating those specimens of national antiquity, which are either mouldering under the slow touch of time, or swept away by modern taste, with the same besom of destruction which John Knox used at the Reformation.†   (source)
  • But at the same time just this aim demands the greatest efforts of us; and so, led astray by pride, losing sight of this aim, we occupy ourselves either with the mystery which in our impurity we are unworthy to receive, or seek the reformation of the human race while ourselves setting an example of baseness and profligacy.†   (source)
  • What was said here just now is true too, that is, that if the jurisdiction of the Church were introduced in practice in its full force, that is, if the whole of the society were changed into the Church, not only the judgment of the Church would have influence on the reformation of the criminal such as it never has now, but possibly also the crimes themselves would be incredibly diminished.†   (source)
  • Many were the inquiries she was eager to make of Miss Tilney; but so active were her thoughts, that when these inquiries were answered, she was hardly more assured than before, of Northanger Abbey having been a richly endowed convent at the time of the Reformation, of its having fallen into the hands of an ancestor of the Tilneys on its dissolution, of a large portion of the ancient building still making a part of the present dwelling although the rest was decayed, or of its standing low in a valley, sheltered from the north and east by rising woods of oak.†   (source)
  • The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the Persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.†   (source)
  • This obscure family of ours was early in the Reformation, and continued Protestants through the reign of Queen Mary, when they were sometimes in danger of trouble on account of their zeal against popery.†   (source)
  • These, and a thousand other reformations, I firmly counted upon by your encouragement; as indeed they were plainly deducible from the precepts delivered in my book.†   (source)
  • A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans, Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, And I will have you and that fault withal; But if they will not, throw away that spirit, And I shall find you empty of that fault, Right joyful of your reformation.†   (source)
  • Not that he was so bitter as Thwackum; for he always expressed some hopes of Tom's reformation; "which," he said, "the unparalleled goodness shown by his uncle on this occasion, must certainly effect in one not absolutely abandoned:" but concluded, "if Mr Jones ever offends hereafter, I shall not be able to say a syllable in his favour."†   (source)
  • His musics, his trigon, his golden thigh, Or his telling how elements shift, but I Would ask, how of late thou best suffered translation, And shifted thy coat in these days of reformation.†   (source)
  • But after all, it was not an apparition, but a grave and pious gentleman, who met him by mere accident, and had been sensible of his wickedness; and who never undeceived him, lest it should hinder his reformation.†   (source)
  • I sent my gentleman a short letter, therefore, that I had obeyed his orders in all things but that of going back to the Bath, which I could not think of for many reasons; that however parting from him was a wound to me that I could never recover, yet that I was fully satisfied his reflections were just, and would be very far from desiring to obstruct his reformation or repentance.†   (source)
  • Had the Greeks, says the Abbe Milot, been as wise as they were courageous, they would have been admonished by experience of the necessity of a closer union, and would have availed themselves of the peace which followed their success against the Persian arms, to establish such a reformation.†   (source)
  • So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes; And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.†   (source)
  • But such reformations are rather to be wished than hoped for: I shall content myself, therefore, with this short hint, and return to my narrative.†   (source)
  • …knowledge of God through Jesus Christ, which was so plain and easy to be understood, as immediately to direct me to carry on the great work of sincere repentance for my sins, and laying hold of a Saviour for eternal life, to a practical stated reformation, and obedience to all God's institutions, without the assistance of a reverend and orthodox divine; and especially by this same instruction, so to enlighten this savage creature, as to make him so good a Christian, as very few could…†   (source)
  • However, though he was not guilty of ill manners by rebuking a gentleman in his own house, he paid him off obliquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience, that he put the laws very severely in execution against others, and the magistrate was the only person in the parish who could swear with impunity.†   (source)
  • So far from complying with this their inclination, by which all hopes of reformation would have been abolished, and even the gate shut against her if her own inclinations should ever hereafter lead her to chuse the road of virtue, Mr Allworthy rather chose to encourage the girl to return thither by the only possible means; for too true I am afraid it is, that many women have become abandoned, and have sunk to the last degree of vice, by being unable to retrieve the first slip.†   (source)
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