 | Benjamin Brook - 1813 - 494 pages
...bestowed upon them the highest eulogium. " So absolute," says he, " 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 " that the English owe the whole freedom of their " constitution.^ It is granted that... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' he observes, ' 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 (is) to this sect that the English ' owe the whole freedom of their constitution !f Mr. Brook,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 pages
...arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' be observes, ' was the authority of the crown, that the precious ' spark of liberty had been 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.... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1816 - 586 pages
...enlogium his pen could well dictate, " So absolute," says he, " was the authority of the crown, ' that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and * was preserved, by the puritans alone ; and it w;as to this * sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their con»' stitution."J While it is... | |
 | Daniel Neal - 1816 - 586 pages
...eulogium his pen could well dictate. " So absolute," says he, « 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 that the English owe the whole freedom of their con? < stitution."t "While it is... | |
 | 1816 - 926 pages
...but " liberty" in general, " had been kindled, and war preserved by the Puritans alone; and it was to this sect, that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." Did Mr. Brook then really mean the present volume to be an implied panegyric on the whole genus, of... | |
 | 1818 - 174 pages
...spite of their faults entitle them to be ranked among the rifst benefactors of their country*. * " The precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone : and it was to this sect, whose principle?. appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English... | |
 | John Evans - 1819 - 444 pages
...speaking of the oppressive dynasty of the Stuarts — " So absolute 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 that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution \" After this asseveration,... | |
 | Henry Card - 1820 - 264 pages
...the thanks of the Parliament. To be sure Mr. Hume says in his History of England, chap. XL. " 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 whose habits so ridiculous, that the English... | |
 | James Sabine - 1820 - 656 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
