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To auoide therefore these breaches of concorde, and for an vniformitie, the holy fathers ware driuen to decree and stablish that asmany as should aftreward be baptised, should be called Christianes of Christe.
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Finally thei so laboured, beautified, and perfeighted the earthe, that at this daie compared with the former naturalle forgrowen wastenesse, it might well sieme not to be that, but rather the Paradise of pleasure, out of the whiche, the first paternes of mankinde (Adam and Eue) for the transgression of Goddes precept, ware driuen.
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And oftentimes in the morning, we found our selues all couered with snow driuen ouer vs by the winde.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And if it fortune any Greke or Grekes, to be driuen thether, him doe thei sacrifice after this maner.
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Moreouer, out of Russia and Comania, they proceeded forward against the Hungarians, and the Polonians and there manie of them were slaine, as is aforesaid and had the Hungarians manfully withstood them, the Tartars had beene confounded and driuen backe.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The first horse therefore being driuen into the water all the other horses of the company followe him, and so they passe through the riuer.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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How they had the repulse at the Caspian mountaynes, and were driuen backe by men dwelling in caues.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And in this place wee were driuen to great extremitie, by reason that we could get neither horses, nor oxen, for any money.
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Chap. How they had the repulse at the Caspian mountaynes, and were driuen backe by men dwelling in caues.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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That feare, hath driuen the kynges of Aegipte, to liue iustly, and vprightly, lesse the people aftre their deathes, might shewe them suche dishonour, and beare them perpetuall hatred.
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