 | 1835 - 932 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy good-breeding for which the court of Charles II. was celebrated. But, if we must make... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy goodbreeding for which the court of Charles II. was celebrated. But, if we must make... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...inestimable obligations, had not the lofty elegance which distinguishe d some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy good breeding for which the court of... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...that a body, to whose courage and talents mankind has owned inestimable obligations, had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like Xhe signs of freemasonry or the dresses of friars. We...mankind has owed inestimable obligations, had not the lofly elegance which distinguished some ol the adherents of Charles 1., or the easy goodbreeding for... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1844 - 266 pages
...the laughers. But it is not from the laughers that the philosophy of history is to be learned Their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...attractive — we regret that a body to whose courage and talent mankind has owed inestimable obligations, had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their * I., or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II. was celebrated. But, if we must make... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...« England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the * Gerusalemme Liberate, xv. 57. adherents of Charles I., or the easy good-breeding for which the court... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...not hesitate to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and a useful body. We regret that they, to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable...which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II was celebrated. But, if we must make... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs...which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II. was celebrated. But, if we must make... | |
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... materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, — who trampled down king, church, and aristocracy, — who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion, made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth,... 
