 | 1831 - 616 pages
...wretched. The whole history of the Christian religif™ p 147. — VOL. xi T ON CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS. shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crashed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her, treat her as their prototypes... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...directed their attacks against the last restraint of the powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of the Christian religion shows,...opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty «pon her, treat her as their prototype; treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her;... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of the Christian Religion shows, lhat she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, lhan of being crushed by ils opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignly upon her, Ireat her... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...restraint of the powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of the Christian Ueligion shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alli;mr<> of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignly... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...directed their attacks against the last restraint of the powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of the Christian religion shows...sovereignty upon her, treat her as their prototypes did her author. They bow the knee and spit upon her; they cry, Hail! and smite her on the cheek; they... | |
 | Theology - 1859 - 880 pages
...is part and parcel of the common law. The whole history of the Christian religion shows that it fs in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance...of power, than of being crushed by its opposition." The Kcv. R. ASIITON, on behalf of the Committee, presented lo the Chairman copies of the two editions... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...directed their attacks against the last restraint of the powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. Bedford or Reading, than to the Enchanted Ground of...critics, we fecl|that we could ill spare. We feel npon her ; they cry Hail ! and smite her on the cheek ; they put a sceptre into her hand, but it is... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 508 pages
...truth, which has been expressed with so much eloquence by a prominent English liberal statesman, that " the whole history of the Christian religion shows,...their prototypes treated her author. They bow the kne*-, and spit upon her ; they cry hail ! and smite her on the cheek; they put a sceptre into her... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Gold mines and mining - 1852 - 702 pages
...last restraint of the powerful and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being...by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by ts opposition." — Macauluy's Essays, pp. 254-255, vol. i. had always cordially desired that the same... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...! their attacks against the last restraint of the j powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. | nd who constantly af being corrupted by the alliance of power than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust... | |
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The whole history of the Christian religion shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. 
