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Page 23
... Church and Prelatic administration in them , an administration galling to the Puritan party and to the middle class ; and this aggrieved class had naturally no proneness to draw nice philosophical distinctions between State - action in ...
... Church and Prelatic administration in them , an administration galling to the Puritan party and to the middle class ; and this aggrieved class had naturally no proneness to draw nice philosophical distinctions between State - action in ...
Page 28
... Church of England upon the nation has been insignificant ; its social action has been great . The social action of Protestant Dissent , that genuine product of the English middle class , has not been civilising ; its positive ...
... Church of England upon the nation has been insignificant ; its social action has been great . The social action of Protestant Dissent , that genuine product of the English middle class , has not been civilising ; its positive ...
Page 61
... Church from the primitive times , and their main buckler of federal holiness , which Tombs and Denne had excellently overthrown . He and his wife then , professing themselves unsatisfied , desired their opin- ions . " II . ] 61 EQUALITY .
... Church from the primitive times , and their main buckler of federal holiness , which Tombs and Denne had excellently overthrown . He and his wife then , professing themselves unsatisfied , desired their opin- ions . " II . ] 61 EQUALITY .
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... Church have in Oxford and Cambridge universities where the teachers are almost wholly Anglican . Well , the Irish Catho- lics ask to be allowed the same thing . There is extraordinary difficulty in getting this demand of theirs directly ...
... Church have in Oxford and Cambridge universities where the teachers are almost wholly Anglican . Well , the Irish Catho- lics ask to be allowed the same thing . There is extraordinary difficulty in getting this demand of theirs directly ...
Page 84
... Church of England there are special errors of their own into which our Liberals are apt to fall , but as to Catholicism their usual and grand error is one which they have in common with Continental Liberals . This error consists in ...
... Church of England there are special errors of their own into which our Liberals are apt to fall , but as to Catholicism their usual and grand error is one which they have in common with Continental Liberals . This error consists in ...
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Page 19 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 57 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Page 203 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 423 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 48 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 158 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 421 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 315 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Page 203 - Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.
Page 423 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...