 | Martin John Spalding - Reformation - 1860 - 530 pages
...confinement,* Knox openly expressed his satisfaction at the horrid deed of blood, describing it as "an event which contributed to the safety of religion...if not also his approbation of the conduct of the conspirators."f So implacable 'in his hatred was this newly modeled saint, that he persistently refused... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1864 - 448 pages
...he [Knox] was privy to the conspiracy which proved fatal to Riccio : but it is probable that ho had expressed his satisfaction at an event which contributed to the safety of religion and of the commonwealth, if not also his approbation of the conduct of the conspirators."" As Dr M'Crie... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - History - 1873 - 496 pages
...'.M,l... in noticing Knox's flight from Edinburgh, after the murder, states, that " It Is prohable he had expressed his satisfaction at an event which contributed...of religion and the commonwealth, If not also his approhation of the conduct of the cons,,lrators." M'Crie's Life of Knox, by Dr. Crichton, pp. 253,... | |
 | Alexander Wilmot - Reformation - 1883 - 208 pages
...that he had expressed his satisfation at an event which contributed to the safety of religion and of the commonwealth, if not also his approbation of the conduct of the conspirators."f Tytler, in his history of Scotland, becomes an unwilling witness against the Reformer,... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1884 - 898 pages
...think that he was privy to the conspiracy which proved fatal to Rizzio ; but it is probable that he had expressed his satisfaction at an event which contributed to the safety of religion and of the commonwealth, if not also his approbation of the conduct of the conspirators." Immoral conduct,... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformers - 1889 - 320 pages
...think that he was privy to the conspiracy which proved fatal to Rizio. But it is probable that he had expressed his satisfaction at an event, which contributed...his approbation of the conduct of the conspirators. At any rate, he was, on other grounds, sufficiently obnoxious to the queen ; and as her resentment,... | |
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M'Crie relates the feelings of the Reformer. In his first edition he says, that " there is no reason to think that he was privy to the conspiracy that proved fatal to Rizzio ; but it is probable that he had expressed his satisfaction at an event which... 
