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[383]. ‘Evangelicæ doctrinæ semina per varios mercatores Germanos jam instillata.’—Gerdesius, Annal. Reform. iii. p. 285.
[384]. ‘Stultos quosdam senes . . ut malint barbariem perpetuam regnare.’ ...—Eliæ epistola ad Petrum canonicum.
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