A History of England in the Eighteenth CenturyD. Appleton, 1878 - History |
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... Church , the movement of religious scepticism which now makes the preponderance of intelligence and energy in every Roman Catholic country hostile to the priests had not yet arisen . From CH . 1 . 21 THE PROTESTANT CAUSE .
... Church , the movement of religious scepticism which now makes the preponderance of intelligence and energy in every Roman Catholic country hostile to the priests had not yet arisen . From CH . 1 . 21 THE PROTESTANT CAUSE .
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky. hostile to the priests had not yet arisen . From almost every point of the compass dark and threatening clouds were gathering around the Protestant cause , and the year 1685 was pronounced the most fatal in ...
William Edward Hartpole Lecky. hostile to the priests had not yet arisen . From almost every point of the compass dark and threatening clouds were gathering around the Protestant cause , and the year 1685 was pronounced the most fatal in ...
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... . Churchill's Collection of Voyages , iv . p . 630 . Whiston's Memoirs ( Ed . 1753 ) , i . p . 377. Whiston ascribed the cures to the prayers of the priests . dynasty was again upon the throne , and in the CH . I. 77 THE ROYAL TOUCH .
... . Churchill's Collection of Voyages , iv . p . 630 . Whiston's Memoirs ( Ed . 1753 ) , i . p . 377. Whiston ascribed the cures to the prayers of the priests . dynasty was again upon the throne , and in the CH . I. 77 THE ROYAL TOUCH .
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... priests of our Church attending , is unquestionable , unless the faith of all our ancient writers , and the consentient 5 ' Douglas ' Criterion ( Ed . 1807 ) , pp . 203-205 . p . 7 . 2 Boswell's Johnson ( Croker's ed . ) 3 Macbeth , Act ...
... priests of our Church attending , is unquestionable , unless the faith of all our ancient writers , and the consentient 5 ' Douglas ' Criterion ( Ed . 1807 ) , pp . 203-205 . p . 7 . 2 Boswell's Johnson ( Croker's ed . ) 3 Macbeth , Act ...
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... priestly power , and to envenom the difference between themselves and the Noncon- formists . The Nonjuror theology ... priests , though they belonged not to the order of Aaron , but to the higher order of Melchisedek ; that the ...
... priestly power , and to envenom the difference between themselves and the Noncon- formists . The Nonjuror theology ... priests , though they belonged not to the order of Aaron , but to the higher order of Melchisedek ; that the ...
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Page 442 - It is now too apparent, that this great, this powerful, this formidable kingdom, is considered only as a province to a despicable Electorate; and that, in consequence of a scheme formed long ago, and invariably pursued, these troops are hired only to drain this unhappy nation of its money.
Page 296 - This pillar was set up in perpetual remembrance of the most dreadful burning of this protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the popish faction, in the beginning of September, in the year of our Lord 1666. In order to the carrying on their horrid plot for extirpating the protestant religion and old English liberty, and introducing popery and slavery.
Page 327 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 141 - ... tis a soul like thine, a soul supreme, in each hard instance tried, above all pain, all passion and all pride, the rage of power, the blast of public breath, the lust of lucre and the dread of death.
Page 307 - In his own country the Catholic was only recognised by the law, ' for repression and punishment.' The Lord Chancellor Bowes and the Chief Justice Robinson both distinctly laid down from the bench ' that the law does not suppose any such person to exist as an Irish Roman...
Page 193 - All civic virtue, all the heroism and self-sacrifice of patriotism spring ultimately from the habit men acquire of regarding their nation as a great organic whole, identifying themselves with its fortunes in the past as in the present, and looking forward anxiously to its future destinies.
Page 308 - To-day, it is the colored race which is denied, by corporations and individuals wielding public authority, rights fundamental in their freedom and citizenship. At some future time, it may be that some other race will fall under the ban of race discrimination.
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Page 302 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles...
Page 580 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he conies, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Arrest him, empress; or you sleep no more — She heard, and drove him to the Hibernian shore.