Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 33
... 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 66
... 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 neighbour- hood 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 neighbour- hood of the Vatican . Alexander , when he ...
Page 115
... 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 appre- ciate the merits of this ...
... 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 appre- ciate the merits of this ...
Page 116
... Catholics . The pro- hibition of their worship would naturally 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 pro- hibition of their worship would naturally 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 117
... 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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