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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 6 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 2 2 Browse Search
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s side may burn his adversary at the stake. An den Adel, &c., 1520. I will preach the truth, speak the truth, write the truth, but will force the truth on no one; for faith must be accepted willingly and without compulsion. Sieben Predigten, 1521. By reason, too, he desired to restrain arbitrary power. His words are: Where a ruler indulges the conceit that he is a prince, not for the sake of his subjects, but for the sake of his beautiful golden hair, he belongs among the heathen. f his lineage, the prophet of German unity and freedom, Luther wrote for his countrymen in their own tongue as no one else could. His words touched the hearts, and wakened the thoughts, and filled the meditations of all. The man of the people, in 1521 he says of himself: Up to this time I have always made it my rule to get Chap. II.} the start of the notions of the court. Not the half would have come about, if I had let myself hang on their counsels. Therefore he was able to transform his n