The government had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. Studies in Early Victorian - Página 75por Frederic Harrison - 1895 - 253 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...gold. The caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...gold. The caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,... | |
| 1842 - 414 páginas
...gold. The caresses of harlots and the jrsts of buffoons regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion...England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with (lie blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...gold. The caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion...every high place, worship was paid to Charles and James—Belial and Moloch; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 páginas
...reigion enough to persecute. The principles of iberty were the scoH 'of every grinning courtier, •\nd the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every...James — Belial and Moloch; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...The caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons regulated the measures of a government, which bad ts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,... | |
| James William Massie - 1847 - 228 páginas
...paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, where the principles of liberty were the scoff of every...and the anathema maranatha of every fawning dean." It is needful that the voice of history should be heard in other society, and the impressions of ingenuous... | |
| Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 páginas
...The " caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons, regulated " the measures of a government which had just ability " enough to deceive, and just religion...James, Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated " those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best " and bravest children. Crime succeeded... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 324 páginas
...the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every...and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean." It is the peculiar merit of Milton and Marvell, that in such an age they held fast their integrity,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 326 páginas
...the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every...and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean." It is the peculiar merit of Milton and Marvell, that in such an age they held fast their integrity,... | |
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