This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...by the conciliatory spirit of past ages, and rightly esteemed by their immediate recipients as privileges, are declared by their clearer-minded sueoessors to be mockeries--partial ameliorations serving only to render all restraint intolerable. A little while ago how many malcontents made it their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...by the conciliatory spirit of past ages, and rightly esteemed by their immediate recipients as privileges, are declared by their clearer-minded sueoessors to be mockeries--partial ameliorations serving only to render all restraint intolerable. A little while ago how many malcontents made it their occupation to recruit and marshal out a ludicrous squad of civil and religious grievances--scarce-apparent pustules at the worst, inflated into loathsome moral tumours!--Most-cheered the jack-a-lantern martyr who boldest bared his arm to show his festering scars; E.--And hoisted, not the revolutionary red-cap nor the mitred cap episcopal, on a pole chequered with sixteen hundred isms, but an "old hat with the humour of forty times forty fancies prick't in't."--A dull trope, this, and interruptive; but Will must have his way. C.--The blaze of modern liberalism confuses oldestablished ideas of freedom, and manifests that to be tyranny, which not long since was toleration. They who had been accustomed to regard Conscience as the inflexible reprover of moral obliquity, were bewildered at the contrariety of its developments. In the dissentient religious world (with one honorable exception, ) the strife had ceased to be for correctness of creeds--the absorbing aim was closeness of confederacy; and advancing into the political boundary, (it was a "narrow bank" and scarcely perceptible that separated the two spheres, ) the lamb of spiritual meekness and the lion of avowed republicanism might be seen in most affectionate salutation. The war-cry of the heterogeneous host has, however, died away in the distance; and to the defeated and dispersed tribes is left the sorry--and, let us hope, the salutary reminiscence, of an inglorious and...
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