 ... principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every high place, worship was paid to Charles and James, Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols...  Friendly Sketches in America - Page 4by William Tallack - 1861 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace,...by-word and a shaking of the head to the nations. Most of the remarks which we have hitherto made on the public character of Milton, apply to him only... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace,...a byword and a shaking of the head to the nations. Most of the remarks, which we have hitherto made on the public character of Milton, apply to him only... | |
 | 1842 - 414 pages
...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 the race accursed of Ciod and man was a second time driven forth, to wander on the face of the earth, and to be a byword... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace,...by-word and a shaking of the head to the nations. Most of the remarks which we have hitherto made on the public character of Milton, apply to him only... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. ith one th« earth, and to be a by-word and a shaking of the head to the nations. Most of the remarks which... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace,...byword and a shaking of the head to the nations." Not less severe is he upon the literature of that period. " A deep and general taint infected the morals... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...cruel idols with the blood of her best " and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and dis" grace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man,...byword and a shaking of the " head to the nations."* It is seldom that a great man is a Christian ; but Cromwell was both. The result has been, that men of... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race accursed of God and man was a second time time driven forth, to wander on the face of the earth,...by-word and a shaking of the head to the nations." * The Foreign Secretary who had stood forth before the eyes of Europe as the justifler of the execution... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...disgrace, till the race accursed of God and man was a second time time driven forth, to wander on the fece of the earth, and to be a by-word and a shaking of the head to the nations." * The Foreign Secretary who had stood forth before the eyes of Europe as the justifier of the execution... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. . tfle head to the nations. Most of the remarks which we have hitherto made on the public character of... | |
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