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The invectives of Valla, Filelfo, Poggio, and other distinguished scholars against each other are notorious; and this bad taste continued in practice long after Luther down to the seventeenth century, and traces of it are found in writers of the eighteenth, even in some of the works of the polished and courtly Voltaire." Cyclopædia of Soc. for Diffus. of Useful Knowledge.

Joseph Augustus Seiss - Luther and the Reformation:: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties