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 other care of them, and not have met with a book or a passage in one, which hit two such nails as these upon the head at one stroke.]

The two universities of Strasburg were hard tugging at this affair of Luther's navigation. The Protestant doctors had demonstrated, that he had not sailed right before the wind, as the Popish doctors had pretended; and as every one knew there was no sailing full in the teeth of it,—they were going to settle, in case he had sailed, how many points he was off; whether Martin had doubled the cape, or had fallen upon, a lee-shore; and no doubt, as it was an enquiry of much edification, at least to those who understood this sort of, they had gone on with it in spite of the size of the stranger's nose, had not the size of the stranger's