 | 1797 - 616 Seiten
...has bestowed on them, as is here observed, the highest eulogium that his pen could well dictate : " So absolute (says he) was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of lilierty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this sect that the... | |
 | David Bogue, James Bennett - 1808 - 492 Seiten
...opinions of the clergy, and ° So absolute was tlie authority of the crown (in the reign of the Tudors) that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone. And to this sect the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution. Hume's History of England. by... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 684 Seiten
...principles of civil and religious liberty, observes when speaking of Ule conduct of Elizabeth, " so absolute was the authority of the crown, that the precious...preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this Ktt, whose principles appear so frivolous, rod habits so ridiculous, that the English o« the whole... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - 1811 - 340 Seiten
...in their favour. He observes, (when speaking of the arbitrary conduct of Elizabeth,) " So absolute was the authority of the crown, that the " precious spark of liberty had been kindred, and was 1jre" served by the Puritans alone; and it was to this sect, whose " principles appear... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 Seiten
...a contemporary writer, nor any other historian, has taken any notice of them. So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown, that the precious...liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritants alone j and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous,... | |
 | 1815 - 670 Seiten
...Puritanism and the love ' of liberty arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' he observes, ' was the authority of the crown, that the precious...was preserved by ' the Puritans alone ; and it was (is) to this sect that the English ' owe the whole freedom of their constitution !f Mr. Brook, in the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 Seiten
...Puritanism and the IOTC ' of liberty arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' be observes, ' was the authority of the crown, that the precious...kindled, and was preserved by ' the Puritans alone ; audit was (is) to this sect that the English ' owe the whole freedom of their constitution !f Mr.... | |
 | James Sabine - 1820 - 656 Seiten
...Of the fathers of these, and similar ehurehes, HUME speaks in the following terms .- " the preeious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the PURITANS ALONE; and it was to this seet that the English owe the whole freedom of their eonstitution." To this body of Christians too... | |
 | 1836 - 708 Seiten
...Puritans, to repeat the testimony of Hume. (Hist. Eng. vol. v. pp. 1tS3, 460.) " So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious...had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans ; and it was to this sect whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the... | |
 | John Kentish - 1829 - 36 Seiten
...p. 14. Mr. Hume goes still further. In a passage frequently quoted (Hist. of Eng. Ann. 1571) he says that " the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by the puritans alone," and that " to this sect the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." The statement is substantially... | |
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So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe... 
