Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 62
... strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of human beings . Wise men , however , have always been in- clined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the ...
... strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of human beings . Wise men , however , have always been in- clined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the ...
Page 64
... strange and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or incongruous in his writings . Abundant proofs remain of the high estimation in which both his ...
... strange and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or incongruous in his writings . Abundant proofs remain of the high estimation in which both his ...
Page 118
... strange grounds for a law inflicting capital penalties , ex post facto , on a large body of men . Eight years later , the bull of Pius deposing Elizabeth pro- duced a third law . This law , to which alone , as we conceive , the defence ...
... strange grounds for a law inflicting capital penalties , ex post facto , on a large body of men . Eight years later , the bull of Pius deposing Elizabeth pro- duced a third law . This law , to which alone , as we conceive , the defence ...
Page 121
... strange loopholes the human mind con- trives to escape , when it wishes to avoid a disagreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to believe the Pope infallible in matters of doctrine ...
... strange loopholes the human mind con- trives to escape , when it wishes to avoid a disagreeable inference from an admitted proposition . We know how long the Jansenists contrived to believe the Pope infallible in matters of doctrine ...
Page 124
... strange , therefore , that his character should have been the subject of fierce controversy . We need not say that we speak of Cranmer . - Mr. Hallam has been severely censured for saying , 124 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
... strange , therefore , that his character should have been the subject of fierce controversy . We need not say that we speak of Cranmer . - Mr. Hallam has been severely censured for saying , 124 HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY .
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