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home here, they blessed the city of their adoption by their skill, their
learning, and their piety. Many who sought here a refuge returned to
their own countries to resist the tyranny of Rome. John Knox, the brave
Scotch reformer, not a few of the English Puritans, the Protestants of
Holland, and the Huguenots of France, carried from Geneva the torch
of truth to lighten the darkness of their native land.
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