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Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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30 THE RHINE BOOK. from his quiet home in the Westof England by the impendingstorm of persecution, and findingthat his personal liberty was indanger, he took ship, and visitedLuther. His translation was com-pleted and printed at Wittem-berg, and, in spite of the dangersincurred, it circulated widelythrough England. This successaggravated the former anger ofHenry the Eighth and Sir ThomasMore, and the Chancellor de-nounced the absent divine in themost virulent terms. The ex- isting epistles of the after-wards beheaded ministerdisplay a rancour of feelingbut little creditable to hismemory. Great pains weretaken to lure Tyndale backto his native country, buthe was too wary to trustspecious promises, or hollowprofessions for his welfare.Not so his fellow exileJohn Frith, who, in sim-plicity of spirit, thought theword of a king when backedby that of a Chancellor
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HOTEL DE VILLE, BRTJSSS LS might be relied on. He accepted Mores invitation to England — and was burnt.Tyndale, however, with all his talent, his piety, his learning, and pure heartedness,was no match for his bigoted enemies. An agent from Henry entrapped him BRUSSELS. 31 at Antwerp : an accusation of heresy was easily believed when a king andhis minister were witnesses, and the translator of the earliest English versionof the New Testament, — a version largely used in the preparation of ourauthorized edition of the Bible, — died by the hands of the executioner at Vil-vorde. His last words were, The Lord open the eyes of the King of England.His body was afterwards burnt at a stake on the spot where the huge prisonnow stands — a building which the traveller can scarcely fail to notice, andwhich is conducted according to the latest theories of the art of ingeniously tor-menting by solitary confinement and eternal silence. As we approach Brussels,we see on the right the palace La

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