A King, whose character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, — such were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome.... The Difficulties of Protestantism - Page 150de John Fletcher - 1829 - 151 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Arthur Featherstone Marshall - 1893 - 272 pages
...Reformation" — an outbreak, as Macaulay has put it, which was "begun by Henry the murderer of his wives, continued by Somerset the murderer of his brother,...completed by Elizabeth the • murderer of her guest" — was given the freest, the wildest play for forty years, in the fond hope of obliterating the Eoman... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, ؐ Eliza heth, the murderer of her guest. Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the... | |
| 1896 - 252 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. ... Of those who had any important share in bringing the Reformation about, Ridley was perhaps the... | |
| 1896 - 938 pages
...by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristo:racy, a servile Parliament; such were the instruments by...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest." — Macauley's Essays. — Hal lam. Bishop Stubbs, whom no Protestant will charge with "Romish" prejudice,... | |
| John Thein - 1900 - 768 pages
...may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself, personified; unprincipled ministers; a rapacious aristocracy; a servile parliament. Such...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. " If we consider Cranmer merely as a statesman, he will not appear a much worse man than Wolsey, Gardiner,... | |
| Humphrey Joseph Desmond - 1901 - 344 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, —...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest." Macaulay's Essays : " Hallam." SMILES : In Ireland " The ' Reformation from Popery ' was completed... | |
| 1902 - 886 pages
...unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile parliament, such, ' ' he sarcastically claims, ' ' were the instruments by which England was delivered from the yoke of Rome." Continuing its genetic history, he goes on, ' ' the work which had been begun by Henry, the murderer... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...character may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...brother, and completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest.1 Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Reformation in England displayed... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 618 pages
...may be best described by saying, that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament ; such...from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy,' &c. ttEdinb. Rev. ibid, p. 52. **Dr. Taylor's Hist. Biogr. of the Age of Elizabeth. 7 VOL, III. rights.... | |
| Peter Christopher Yorke - 1913 - 332 pages
...may be best described by saying that he was despotism itself personified, unprincipled 41 ministers, a rapacious aristocracy, a servile Parliament, such...completed by Elizabeth, the murderer of her guest. . . Of those who had any important share in bringing the Reformation about, Ridley was perhaps the... | |
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