 | Books - 1797 - 618 pages
...euiogiuni that his pen could well dictate : " So absolute (says he) was the authority of the erown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution *." —... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...neither Camden, though a contemporary writer, nor any other historian, has taken any notice of them. So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that...had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that... | |
 | David Bogue, James Bennett - Dissenters - 1808 - 492 pages
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...of civil and religious liberty, observes, when speaking of the conduct of Elizabeth, " so absolute was the authority of the crown, that the precious...had been kindled, and was preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 684 pages
...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...had been kindled, and was preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this Ktt, whose principles appear so frivolous, rod habits so ridiculous, that... | |
 | Micaiah Towgood - 1811 - 340 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...neither Camdenj though a contemporary writer, nor any other historian, has taken any notice of them. So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown,...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 494 pages
...with ridicule and contempt, has bestowed upon them the highest eulogium. " So absolute," says he, " was the " authority of the crown, that the precious...been kindled, and was preserved, " by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect " that the English owe the whole freedom of their " constitution."!... | |
 | Benjamin Brook - Puritans - 1813 - 494 pages
...with ridicule and contempt, has bestowed upon them the highest eulogium. " So absolute," says he, " was the " authority of the crown, that the precious...been kindled, and was preserved, " by the Puritans alone; and it was to this sect " that the English owe the whole freedom of their " constitution.^ It... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...Puritanism and the love ' of liberty arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' he observes, ' was the authority of the crown, that the precious...been kindled, and was preserved by ' the Puritans alone ; and it was (is) to this sect that the English ' owe the whole freedom of their constitution... | |
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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 alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English... 
