Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . 122 MARTIN LUTHER. HE Theses prepared by Tetzel hadsmall sale. People had heard allthese arguments before, but Lu-thers propositions were that Luther said inpublic now was taken down, print-ed and passed along; his bookswere sold in the market placesand at the fairs throughout theEmpire. Luther glorified Germany, and referred oftento the Deutsche Theologie, and this pleased thepeople. The jealousy that existed between Italiansand Germans was fanned. He occasionally preached in neighboring cities, andalways was attended by an esco
Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . 122 MARTIN LUTHER. HE Theses prepared by Tetzel hadsmall sale. People had heard allthese arguments before, but Lu-thers propositions were that Luther said inpublic now was taken down, print-ed and passed along; his bookswere sold in the market placesand at the fairs throughout theEmpire. Luther glorified Germany, and referred oftento the Deutsche Theologie, and this pleased thepeople. The jealousy that existed between Italiansand Germans was fanned. He occasionally preached in neighboring cities, andalways was attended by an escort of several hundredstudents. Once he spoke at Nuremburg and was en-tertained by that great man and artist, Albert Durer,Everywhere crowds hung upon his words and oftenhe was cheered and applauded, even in churches. Hedenounced the extravagance and folly of ecclesiasti-cal display, the wrong of robbing the poor in order toadd to the splendor of Rome, he plead for the right ofprivate interpretation of the Scriptures and arguedthe need of repentance and a deep pers
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