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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2

CHAPTER IX
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We find him at Marburg in the following year, ill-received by the University, but welcomed by the Prince.

Thence we follow him to Mainz, and afterwards to Wittenberg, where he spent two years.

Here he conceived a high opinion of the Germans.

He foresaw that when they turned their attention from theology to science and pure speculation, great results might be expected from their solid intellectual capacity.

He seems in fact to have taken a pretty accurate measure of the race as it has subsequently shown itself.


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