 | 1848 - 726 pagina’s
...jaws of Behemoth, and treading between his great teeth, would leave him to do all his pleasure." " If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I would still enter it." Did not the Wesleys and Whitefield, and the whole of that litlle... | |
 | Barnas Sears - 1799 - 454 pagina’s
...with the elector at Worms, not to venture into the city ; to which he made the well-known reply : " If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs of the houses, I would still go thither." Just before the close of his life, referring... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 538 pagina’s
...course with joy." And between Peter and Luther — Luther, who when informed of his dangers, said, If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the houses, I would go — But Peter followed him afar off! This was also very ungrateful. The Saviour... | |
 | James Bacon (historian.) - 1829 - 530 pagina’s
...of whom had been shamefully put to death under pretexts similar to those now alleged against him. " If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the house-tops I would go without fear," was the intrepid reply of the reformer, (a) He set out... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pagina’s
...distance of a league from Worms. Such was his conviction of the justice of his cause, that when Spalatin sent a messenger to warn him of his danger, he answered, " If there were as manydevils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs of its houses, I would go on." Before the emperor,... | |
 | S. T. Sturtevant - 1834 - 662 pagina’s
...course with joy ;" and between Peter and Luther ! — Luther, who, when informed of his dangers, said, " If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the houses, I would go." — But " Peter followed him afar off." This was very ungrateful. The Saviour... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 608 pagina’s
...distance of a league from Worms. Such was his conviction of the justice of his cause, that when Spalatin sent a messenger to warn him of his danger, he answered,...go on." Before the emperor, the archduke Ferdinand, 0 electors, 24 dukes, 7 margraves, 30 bishops and prelates, and many princes, counts, lords and ambassadors,... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pagina’s
...distance of a league from Worms. Such was his conviction of the justice of his cause, that when Spalatin sent a messenger to warn him of his danger, he answered,...go on." Before the emperor, the archduke Ferdinand, six electors, twenty-four dukes, seven margraves, thirty bishops and prelates, and many princes, counts,... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pagina’s
...dissuade him from proceeding, he addressed him, " Go and tell your master (Frederic), that were there as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs I would enter." Luther's courage did not forsake him when he entered the Diet. He speedily recovered... | |
 | Robert Bateman Paul - 1847 - 514 pagina’s
...Wittemberg and Worms." To a friend who met him at Oppenheim, and tried to turn him back, he said, " An there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs of the houses, thither nevertheless would I go." His entry into Worms is described by himself in his own... | |
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If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon the roofs of its houses, I would go on. 
