Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 34
... Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their candid construction . The bold assertions of these people have of late impressed a large portion of the public with an opinion ...
... Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their candid construction . The bold assertions of these people have of late impressed a large portion of the public with an opinion ...
Page 68
... Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only contempt in the immediate neighbourhood of the Vatican . Alexander , when he ...
... Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms which carried terror into the palaces and camps of the proudest sovereigns excited only contempt in the immediate neighbourhood of the Vatican . Alexander , when he ...
Page 118
... Catholic was bound in conscience to be a traitor ; it was therefore against traitors , not against Catholics , that the penal laws were enacted . In order that our readers may be fully competent to appreciate the merits of this defence ...
... Catholic was bound in conscience to be a traitor ; it was therefore against traitors , not against Catholics , that the penal laws were enacted . In order that our readers may be fully competent to appreciate the merits of this defence ...
Page 119
... Catholics from the liberal pro- fessions , would have been mercy itself compared with this odious act . It is a ... Catholic shall convert a Protestant to the Romish Church , they shall both suffer death as for high treason . We ...
... Catholics from the liberal pro- fessions , would have been mercy itself compared with this odious act . It is a ... Catholic shall convert a Protestant to the Romish Church , they shall both suffer death as for high treason . We ...
Page 120
... Catholics have ever given to the English mon- archy since the Reformation ; and that too with much less excuse . The true distinction is perfectly obvious . To punish a man because he has committed a crime , or because he is believed ...
... Catholics have ever given to the English mon- archy since the Reformation ; and that too with much less excuse . The true distinction is perfectly obvious . To punish a man because he has committed a crime , or because he is believed ...
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