 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 552 pages
...emperors, we learn to have a detestation against tyranny. The Greeks carry this point yet a great * Mr Molesworth, afterwards Lord Viscount Molesworth,...was, in his political paper called the Englishman. t " These men, from the pompous ideas of imperial greatness, and submission to absolute emperors, which... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - Universalism - 1840 - 420 pages
...infidelity that made the apostles so obnoxious wherever they preached ; and caused the people to say, " those who have turned the world upside down, are come hither also." III. An attempt has been recently made to distinguish Universalists only by a disbelief in future punishment.... | |
 | 1856 - 400 pages
...taken the pains to prepossess the minds of the people against this new sect. Forewarning them that "those who have 'turned the world upside down are come hither also;" so that from the very commencement of the church here, we have also to date its oppositions and struggles.... | |
 | Robert Wright - Georgia - 1867 - 446 pages
...Whitefield retorted with double acrimony and greater success. While Garden expatiated on the text — " Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also," Whitefield, with all the force of that indecorous humour of which he was master, enlarged upon the... | |
 | Robert Ainslie - 1869 - 492 pages
...6And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also ; 7Whom Jason hath received : and all these do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1879 - 758 pages
...clergyman, warned his people against this disturber of the peace of the church, preaching from the text — "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also." Whitefield answered him, and his text was — "Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil; the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 436 pages
...in whose t * The pastoral admonitions of Bishop Burnet usually contained some political touches. t Mr. Molesworth, afterwards Lord Viscount Molesworth,...the Convocation. Steele pleaded Molesworth's defence defence he affronts the whole convocation of Ireland ? It is a wise maxim, that because the clergy... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 436 pages
...in whose t * The pastoral admonitions of Bishop Burnet usually contained some political touches. t Mr. Molesworth, afterwards Lord Viscount Molesworth,...time, an insult upon the Convocation. Steele pleaded Molesworih's defence defence he affronts the whole convocation of Ireland? It is a wise maxim, that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1890 - 984 pages
...of honour, seemed to invert all the old standards of excellence, and all the old criteria of truth. "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also." The characteristic of the new religion, which was most prominent in the minds of its earliest converts,... | |
 | Edward Caird - Literature - 1892 - 314 pages
...of honour, seemed to invert all the old standards of excellence, and all the old criteria of truth. "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also." The characteristic of the new religion, which was most prominent in the minds of its earliest converts,... | |
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The offence consisted in his having said, when the clergy were about to move a Tory address, "Those who have turned the world upside down are come hither also... 
