 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...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 corrupted...of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They... | |
 | Harold Begbie - Civilization - 1923 - 264 pages
...to do its mighty work on the human soul. "The whole history of Christianity," says Macaulay, "shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted...of power than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They... | |
 | Charles Smull Longacre - Church and state - 1927 - 136 pages
...Dr. Philip SchafJ, in " Church and State," p. 11. " The whole history of the Christian religion shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted...of power than of being crushed by its opposition." — Macaulay's Essay on " Southey's Colloquies.'' " I consider the government of the United States... | |
 | 1830 - 594 pages
...the powerful, and the last hope of the wretched. The whole history of the Christian Religion shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted...of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her, treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 522 pages
...strength of his intellect and passions. The whole history of the Christian religion shows, he says, that " she is in far greater danger of being corrupted...of power than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They... | |
 | Freedom of religion - 1893 - 460 pages
...as has been proven many times. " The whole history of the Christian religion shows that the Church is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the...of power than of being crushed by its opposition." . — Macaulay. "Many imagine that the doctrine of the gospel requires the support of civil power.... | |
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The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrust temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author.... 
