Having been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero and other renowned persons among the ancients; and such as Sidney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, I liked... Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society - Page 279by Massachusetts Historical Society - 1918Full view - About this book
| John Eliot - Frontier and pioneer life - 1809 - 528 pages
...magnitude. * ' Having been initiated in youth," said he, in another discourse upon a different subject, " in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught...other renowned persons, among the ancients ; and such as Sydney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, I liked them ; they seemed rational. And... | |
| John Eliot - Frontier and pioneer life - 1809 - 538 pages
...another discourse upon a different subject, " in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taurjht by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero, and other renowned persons, among the ancients ; and such as Sydney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, 1 liked them ; they seemed rational. And... | |
| Benjamin Franklin French - United States - 1825 - 378 pages
...first magnitude. In his sermon on the repeal of the stamp act, 1766, he remarks. "Having been initiated in the doctrines of civil liberty as they were taught...other renowned persons, among the ancients; and such as Sidney 224 and Milton, Locke, and Hoadley, among the moderns. I liked them ; they seemed rational... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...held a language which is remarkable considering the time at which it was uttered. " Having (said he) been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil...other renowned persons among the ancients, and such as Sydney, Milton, Locke and Hoadley among the moderns, I liked them ; they seemed rational. And having... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...held a language which is remarkable considering the time at which it was uttered. " Having (said he) been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil...as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero, and other renowned persona among the ancients, and such as Sydney, Milton, Locke and Hoadley among the moderns, I liked... | |
| England - 1835 - 802 pages
...first magnitude.' ' Having been initiated,' he said of himself, in a sermon on the Stamp Act, ' in my youth, in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they...other renowned persons among the ancients, and such as Sydney and Milton, Locke and Hoadley, among the moderns, / lihed them ; they seemed rational. And,... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...held a language which is remarkable considering the time at which it was uttered. " Having (said he) been initiated, in youth, in the doctrines of civil...Cicero, and other renowned persons among the ancients, nndsuchas Sydney, Milton, Locke and Hoadley among the moderns, I liked them ; they seemed rational.... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 486 pages
...pacific consideration. " Having been initiated in youth," said this political and polemical divine, " in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught...other renowned persons among the ancients, and such as Sidney, Milton, Locke, and Hoadley, among the moderns, — I liked them : they seemed rational.... | |
| James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 480 pages
...pacific consideration. " Having been initiated in youth," said this political and polemical divine, " in the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught...other renowned persons among the ancients, and such as Sidney, Milton, Locke, and Hoadley, among the moderns, — I liked them : they seemed rational.... | |
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