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" Government had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every grinning courtier, and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every high place, worship was paid to Charles... "
Essay on Milton - Page 109
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 160 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough...of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man, was a second time driven...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough...of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race accursed of God and man was a second time driven...
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Boston Miscellany, Volume 2

Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...caresses of harlots and the jrsts of buffoons regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with (lie blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, regulated the measures of a government, which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough...every high place, worship was paid to Charles and James—Belial and Moloch; and England propitiated those obscene and cruel idols with the blood of...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...reigion enough to persecute. The principles of iberty were the scoH 'of every grinning courtier, •\nd the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean. In every...of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man, was a second time driven...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons regulated the measures of a government, which bad just nd possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and to crime, and disgrace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man, was a second time driven...
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Liberty of Conscience Illustrated: And the Social Relations Sustained by ...

James William Massie - Conscience - 1847 - 228 pages
...paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the caresses of harlots, and the jests of buffoons, where the principles of liberty were the scoff of every...and the anathema maranatha of every fawning dean." It is needful that the voice of history should be heard in other society, and the impressions of ingenuous...
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The protector [O. Cromwell] a vindication. revised

Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1848 - 346 pages
...caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons, regulated " the measures of a government which had just ability " enough to deceive, and just religion enough...of her best " and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime, and dis" grace to disgrace, till the race, accursed of God and man, " was a second time driven...
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Essays and Reviews ...

Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons regulated the measures of a government which had just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough...James — Belial and Moloch ; and England propitiated these obscene and cruel idols with the blood of her best and bravest children. Crime succeeded to crime,...
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Old Portraits and Modern Sketches

John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1850 - 324 pages
...the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave. The principles of liberty were the scoff of every...and the Anathema Maranatha of every fawning dean." It is the peculiar merit of Milton and Marvell, that in such an age they held fast their integrity,...
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