Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes3-4A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1897 |
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... Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , recommended a tolerant policy to his mis- tress as strongly as he could recommend it without hazarding her favour , never put to the rack any person from whom it did not seem ...
... Protestant when it was not very advantageous to be a Papist , recommended a tolerant policy to his mis- tress as strongly as he could recommend it without hazarding her favour , never put to the rack any person from whom it did not seem ...
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... Protestantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass with no idolatrous intention . " Nobody , we Delieve , ever accused him of idolatrous intentions . The very ground of the charge against him is that he ...
... Protestantism . " In another place , the Doctor tells us , that Cecil went to mass with no idolatrous intention . " Nobody , we Delieve , ever accused him of idolatrous intentions . The very ground of the charge against him is that he ...
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... Protestants who were called Adiaphorists , and who considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Me- lancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " ap- pears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any ...
... Protestants who were called Adiaphorists , and who considered the popish rites as matters indifferent . Me- lancthon was one of these moderate persons , and " ap- pears , " says Dr. Nares , " to have gone greater lengths than any ...
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... Protestant . He was sent to escort the Papal Legate , Cardinal Pole , from Brussels to London . That great body of ... Protestants who had preferred exile to recantation . He attached himself to the persecuted heiress of the throne , and ...
... Protestant . He was sent to escort the Papal Legate , Cardinal Pole , from Brussels to London . That great body of ... Protestants who had preferred exile to recantation . He attached himself to the persecuted heiress of the throne , and ...
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... Protestant and Cath- olic Europe . The only event of modern times which can be properly compared with the Reformation is the French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place ...
... Protestant and Cath- olic Europe . The only event of modern times which can be properly compared with the Reformation is the French Revolution , or , to speak more accurately , that great revolution of political feeling which took place ...
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Página 494 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 290 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 305 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 495 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and, hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eve.
Página 305 - The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of the Supreme Pontiffs. That line we trace back in an unbroken series, from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the nineteenth century to the Pope who crowned Pepin in the eighth; and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dynasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fable.
Página 494 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 86 - We very much doubt whether Lord Mahon can prove that the income which the Spanish government derived from the mines of America fluctuated more than the income derived from the internal taxes of Spain itself. All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government.
Página 463 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy wa.s to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.
Página 171 - Where the Church must needs have some ordained, and neither hath nor can have possibly a bishop to ordain, in case of such necessity the ordinary institution of God hath given oftentimes, and may give place. And therefore we are not simply without exception to urge a lineal descent of power from the Apostles by continued succession of bishops in every effectual ordination.
Página 356 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.