 So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous, that the English...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 4521797Full view - About this book
 | Durham Dunlop - 1881 - 342 pages
...enlightened, liberal, and sublime senti" ment " — that " so absolute was the authority of the Crown " that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled,...sect -that the English owe the whole freedom of their Con" stitution ! " 175 CHAPTER VII. On the Further Relations between Church and State under Elizabtth,... | |
 | Charles Henry Brigham - 1881 - 480 pages
...every communion. XV. THE PURITANS OF ENGLAND. " So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of Liberty had been kindled...preserved by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom... | |
 | 1881 - 588 pages
...always been in the direction of civil freedom. The historian Hume, writing of the Tudor period, declared that " the precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone," and that to them " the English owed the whole freedom of their Constitution." Lord Eussell, speaking in... | |
 | Nathaniel S. MacFetridge - 1882 - 174 pages
...the Calvinistic Puritans is equally strong. "So absolute," he says, "was the authority of the Crown that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled...this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of * Hist. Eng., ii. pp. 196, 197. their constitution." * And Taine, referring to the Calvinists of Great... | |
 | Nathaniel S. McFetridge - 1882 - 172 pages
...Puritans is equally strong. " So absolute," he says, " was the authority of the Crown that the preciou? spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved...this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of * Hist. Fng., ii. pp. 196, 197. tfieir constitution." * And Taine, referring to the Calvinists of Great... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1882 - 842 pages
...Islands a land of liberty and law. Even the great historian Hume was compelled reluctantly to declare that "the precious spark of liberty had been kindled,...preserved, by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the English owe the whole freedom... | |
 | David Hume - 1882 - 614 pages
...historian, has taken any notice n '.hem So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown, tliii* the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and...preserved, by the Puritans alone; and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the E-iglish owe the whole freedom... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1882 - 416 pages
...and their mitre-bearers. Even Hume has admitted that " the precious spark of liberty was kindled and preserved by the Puritans alone, and it was to this...English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." So these tough-fibred, resolute, highly-consecrated Englishmen abandoned their homes, and sailed out... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 660 pages
...depositaries of the sacred fire of liberty." " So absolute was the authority of the crown," said Hume, " that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled...English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." The lines of the contending parties were sharply drawn. Immediate success was obtained by the established... | |
 | 1835 - 418 pages
...New England. Of them the tory and infidel Hume declares, 'So absolute was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled,...English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.'" — Hist, of Eng., chap. xl. ed. 1802, Vol. vp 183. To correct some of Dr. Lee's unwarrantable statements... | |
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