Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 49
... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of do- mestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of VOL . I. E England terrible to every nation on the face of the MILTON . 49.
... Europe had ever seen , who trampled down King , Church , and Aristocracy , who , in the short intervals of do- mestic sedition and rebellion , made the name of VOL . I. E England terrible to every nation on the face of the MILTON . 49.
Page 63
... Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his sur- name they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name ...
... Church of Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his sur- name they have coined an epithet for a knave , and out of his Christian name ...
Page 67
... Church and the Empire . It was fostered and invigorated by their disputes . In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , triumphed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes ...
... Church and the Empire . It was fostered and invigorated by their disputes . In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , triumphed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes ...
Page 68
... church , its saints and its miracles , its lofty pretensions and its splendid ceremonial , its worthless blessings and its harmless curses , too long and too closely to be duped . They stood behind the scenes on which others were gazing ...
... church , its saints and its miracles , its lofty pretensions and its splendid ceremonial , its worthless blessings and its harmless curses , too long and too closely to be duped . They stood behind the scenes on which others were gazing ...
Page 110
... church , abused with all the rancour of simulated virtue , by the tools of a base government , and the priests of a baser superstition . The name of the man whose genius had illuminated all the dark places of policy , and to whose ...
... church , abused with all the rancour of simulated virtue , by the tools of a base government , and the priests of a baser superstition . The name of the man whose genius had illuminated all the dark places of policy , and to whose ...
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