Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and Biographyauthor, 1811 - 401 頁 |
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第 69 頁
... priests and lords to prop the crown . Thus if the just must conquer , fall or fly , The just should conquer , and the traitors die . ' Tis better these should die as foes to laws ( 69 ) Here innocence is doom'd unheard, to feel ...
... priests and lords to prop the crown . Thus if the just must conquer , fall or fly , The just should conquer , and the traitors die . ' Tis better these should die as foes to laws ( 69 ) Here innocence is doom'd unheard, to feel ...
第 84 頁
... priests deny : For through their arts , the fear of fictious ill Makes man obey a cruel tyrant's will . Fantastic sins engage the thoughts of slaves ; And draw their minds from all the schemes of knaves : For slaves , though kind and ...
... priests deny : For through their arts , the fear of fictious ill Makes man obey a cruel tyrant's will . Fantastic sins engage the thoughts of slaves ; And draw their minds from all the schemes of knaves : For slaves , though kind and ...
第 89 頁
... priest whose bulls ( 110 ) have licenc'd ev'ry sin , And weary'd life with torture , strife and din ? Shall man be told to doubt his eyes and ears ? By idle priests , or false , pretended seers . Who heeds such counsel in some ditch ...
... priest whose bulls ( 110 ) have licenc'd ev'ry sin , And weary'd life with torture , strife and din ? Shall man be told to doubt his eyes and ears ? By idle priests , or false , pretended seers . Who heeds such counsel in some ditch ...
第 91 頁
... priest !!! When shall thy fires , and cruel craft have ceas'd with thy curs'd errors plain to thy own eyes , Thou causest flames around the blind to rise : Does this consist with what thyself ascribes To God supreme , the God of ...
... priest !!! When shall thy fires , and cruel craft have ceas'd with thy curs'd errors plain to thy own eyes , Thou causest flames around the blind to rise : Does this consist with what thyself ascribes To God supreme , the God of ...
第 92 頁
... priests exclude from ruth : For nought but reason changes virtuous minds ; No force can bend them while conviction binds . The priests who tortur'd those who doubted , knew That none could credit what appear'd untrue : Go , tell a man ...
... priests exclude from ruth : For nought but reason changes virtuous minds ; No force can bend them while conviction binds . The priests who tortur'd those who doubted , knew That none could credit what appear'd untrue : Go , tell a man ...
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第 3 頁 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
第 311 頁 - Cat/iolicce, and against Luther, who had just begun the Reformation in Germany, upon which the pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith, a title still retained by the monarcbs of Great Britain: the bull conferring it bears date Oct.
第 194 頁 - Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was...
第 193 頁 - King to the bar, it had been treason in them ; and as to the part he had in the action with which he was charged, he was so far from repenting what he had done, that he was most ready to seal it with his blood...
第 210 頁 - On the twenty-eighth day of March he was conducted, amidst a vast concourse of the populace, to the Greve, the common place of execution, stripped naked, and fastened to the scaffold by iron gyves. One of his hands was then burnt in liquid flaming sulphur; his thighs, legs, and arms, were torn with...
第 273 頁 - He applied the golden rule of " doing to others as he would that others should do unto him," which for the present put an end to the discussion.
第 245 頁 - ... the Diversions of Purley," first published in octavo in 1786. The work was afterwards enlarged into two volumes quarto, but never completed. In the introduction, the author, with reference to his own political opinions, has humorously alluded to Purley having been once the seat of Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice at the trial of Charles I. Respecting the contents of this work, the critical " doctors " of the time did decidedly differ, and a tractable but weak-minded reader must...
第 193 頁 - ... their detestation of such usage. At the place of execution, among other things, he declared that he had used the utmost of his endeavours that the practice of the law might be regulated, and that the...
第 188 頁 - ... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants of Rome...