 | Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with (lie blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...regulated the measures of a government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were...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... | |
 | James William Massie - Conscience - 1847 - 228 pages
...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 pages
...regulated " the measures of a government which had just ability " enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. " The principles of liberty were...and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and dis" grace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man, " was a second time driven forth, to... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 326 pages
...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 Milton - Bible - 1851 - 554 pages
...of the government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. In every high place, worship was paid to Charles and...idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. 25-26. Though fallen on evil days : The repetition, and change in the order of these words, are remarkably... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...regulated the measures uf a government, which had just ability enough t> deceive, and just religion 0 Jamej — Belial and Moloch; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...persecale. The principles of liberty were the scolfof every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Marnn.v tha of every fawning dean. In every high place, worship...propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the biood of her besl and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the... | |
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The government had just ability enough to deceive, and just reliD2 gion enough to persecute. The 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... 
