Progress languished in a dungeon for the crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact, that the years during which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy was in the zenith were precisely the years... History of New England - Página 440por John Gorham Palfrey - 1860Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1876 - 672 páginas
...Puritanism extended it- mon ^ self to the venerable things that Puritans revered, 1 Statutes at Large, II. 758. • Ibid., 763. and to those habits of blameless...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point." 1 To the Presbyterians of his Northern kingdom Charles the Second had no recent promises to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - 738 páginas
...Pilgrim's Progress languished in a dungeon for the crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact that...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point. Profligacy Scarcely any rank or profession escaped the infection °f *ne prevailing immorality;... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 510 páginas
...the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact that the years dui-ing which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point. Scarcely any rank or profession escaped the infection of the prevailing immorality ; but those... | |
| Richard Aubrey Essery - 1881 - 184 páginas
...crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact too, that the years during which the political power of...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point. Even immoral men who were not utterly destitute of sense and public spirit, complained that... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1886 - 818 páginas
...for the crime of proclaiming the gospel to the poor. It is an unquestionable and a most instmctive fact that the years during which the political power...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point. Scarcely any rank or profession escaped the infection of the prevailing immorality ; but those... | |
| Richard Eddy - 1887 - 492 páginas
...characterizing this period, Macaulay closes a satirical description by saying : " It is an unquestionable and most instructive fact, that the years during which...precisely the years during which national virtue was at its lowest point." J Unfortunately, this condition of things characterized the most of the century,... | |
| Alexander Hutton Drysdale - 1889 - 666 páginas
...uniformity in a National Church, faithfully set down in their own words." i His words' are, " It is an unquestionable and a most instructive fact, that...precisely the years during which national virtue was at its lowest." t It would carry us too far aijeld into the region of violent party politics to enter... | |
| 1906 - 810 páginas
...every day; less modest, and in fine, more wicked than in papacy. MACAULEY. It is an unquestionable and most instructive fact that the years during which...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point. C. ELTON BLANCHARD. I ask you to remember that reverence is a fetish. Reverence nothing that... | |
| Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy - 1906 - 756 páginas
...and control of education are political privileges ; and we remember, in the words of Lord Macaulay, that " the years during which the political power...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point." It was Christianity alone which overthrew priestcraft and set free the human mind. The teaching... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 páginas
...for every line of her rubric, and every thread of her vestments. . . . It is an unquestionable and most instructive fact, that the years during which...years during which national virtue was at the lowest point." The immorality, profligacy, and total want of principle among the higher classes, in the reign... | |
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