Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... 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 ...
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... Catholics from the liberal professions , 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 professions , 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 ...
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... Catholics have ever given to the English monarchy since the Reformation ; and that too with much less excuse . The true ... Catholic , he must think it right to murder a heretical sovereign , and that because he thinks it right , he will ...
... Catholics have ever given to the English monarchy since the Reformation ; and that too with much less excuse . The true ... Catholic , he must think it right to murder a heretical sovereign , and that because he thinks it right , he will ...
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... Catholic Church would , as a necessary consequence , have thought himself justified in deposing or assassinating Elizabeth . It is not sufficient to say that the convert must have acknowledged the authority of the Pope , and that the ...
... Catholic Church would , as a necessary consequence , have thought himself justified in deposing or assassinating Elizabeth . It is not sufficient to say that the convert must have acknowledged the authority of the Pope , and that the ...
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... 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 . Mary had suffered him to live , we suspect that he would have ...
... 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 . Mary had suffered him to live , we suspect that he would have ...
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