Throughout Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of... The Reformation - Page 511by George Park Fisher - 1873 - 620 pagesFull view - About this book
| Missions - 1854 - 834 pages
...of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe...and industry, into gardens, and can boast of a long line of heroes and of statesmen, philosophers, and poets. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been made in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe...skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of 1849.] a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets. Whoever, knowing what Italy and... | |
| John Cumming - Providence and government of God - 1849 - 190 pages
...has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces in Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty,...and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long line of heroes, statesmen, philosophers, and poets. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally... | |
| 1849 - 586 pages
...of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe...in intellectual torpor, while Protestant countries, B. once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill and industry into gardens,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe...been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectu.il torpor, while Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1849 - 840 pages
...power. The loveliest and most fer•Г.* provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poy*riy, in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor,...countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, bten turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can uf a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers... | |
| 1849 - 858 pages
...has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest anil most fertile provinces in Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty,...in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor ; whilst Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill... | |
| Protestantism - 1849 - 668 pages
...his deliberate conviction that the loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have under Popish rule been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor, whilst Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill... | |
| 1850 - 790 pages
...of life, has been made in spite of her, and hau everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe...long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poete. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally arc, and what, four hundred years ago, they... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1850 - 256 pages
...loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe," says Macaulay, " have, under the rule of Catholicism, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and...of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets." If any one ,doubts that education, under Protestant auspices, is essential to national greatness and... | |
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