...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...The rural clergy were even more vehement in Toryism The than the rural gentry, and were a class scarcely less important. It is to be observed, however,...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey." — p. 302. The following sentence we copy without comment : — " It is an unquestionable and a most...

...enlightened devotion and practical zealotry. "The experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey." He could not see the exact propriety of great rogues and designing courtiers being good Catholics or...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey." — p. 302. The following sentence we copy without comment : — " It is an unquestionable and a most...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey. His animosities were numerous and bitter. He hated Frenchmen and Italians, Scotchmen and Irishmen,...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey. His animosities were numerous and bitter. He hated Frenchmen and Italians, Scotchmen and Irishmen,...

...Macaulay's readers had doubtless observed that his description of the Clergy opens in these words : " The rural clergy were EVEN MORE VEHEMENT IN TORYISM THAN THE RURAL GENTRY." Now it so falls out that there is a portrait of a Clergyman which agrees in some very important particulars...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...rural clergy were even more vehement in Toryism than * My notion of the country gentleman of the seventeenth century has been derived from sources too numerous...

...which is common to all Christian sects. But the experience of many ages proves that men may be ready to fight to the death, and to persecute without pity,...understand, and whose precepts they habitually disobey. / It is hardly necessary to say that books were then very scarce. Few knights of the shire had libraries...

...• The_rural clergy were even,, more vehement in The cie Toryism than the rural gentry, and were'a class scarcely less important. It is to be observed, however, that the individual clergyman, as * My notion of the country I must leave my description to gentleman of the seventeenth cen- the judgment...