Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 67
... 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
... Catholics . The prohibition of their worship would na- turally produce it . But it is from their situation , not from ... Catholic shall convert a Protestant to the Romish Church , they shall both suffer death as for high treason . We ...
... Catholics . The prohibition of their worship would na- turally produce it . But it is from their situation , not from ... Catholic shall convert a Protestant to the Romish Church , they shall both suffer death as for high treason . We ...
Page 120
Thomas Babington Macaulay. cause a man is a Catholic , he must think it right to murder a heretical sovereign , and that ... Catholic Church would , as a necessary con- sequence , have thought himself justified in deposing or as- 120 ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. cause a man is a Catholic , he must think it right to murder a heretical sovereign , and that ... Catholic Church would , as a necessary con- sequence , have thought himself justified in deposing or as- 120 ...
Page 121
... Catholic in the kingdom thought that Elizabeth might be lawfully murdered . Still the old maxim , that what is the business of everybody is the business of nobody , is particularly likely to hold good in a case in which a cruel death is ...
... Catholic in the kingdom thought that Elizabeth might be lawfully murdered . Still the old maxim , that what is the business of everybody is the business of nobody , is particularly likely to hold good in a case in which a cruel death is ...
Page 128
... Catholic or Protestant , he should burn . Then he spoke out , as people generally speak out when they are at the point of death and have nothing to hope or to fear on earth . If Mary had suffered him to live , we suspect that he would ...
... Catholic or Protestant , he should burn . Then he spoke out , as people generally speak out when they are at the point of death and have nothing to hope or to fear on earth . If Mary had suffered him to live , we suspect that he would ...
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