More apprehension of fraud than of force
Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns
Never lack of fishers in troubled waters
Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to bed
O God! what does man come to!
Only true religion
Opening an abyss between government and people
Opposed the subjection of the magistracy by the priesthood
Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory
Party hatred was not yet glutted with the blood it had drunk
Pot-valiant hero
Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from England
Rather a wilderness to reign over than a single heretic
Resolve to maintain the civil authority over the military
Rose superior to his doom and took captivity captive
Seemed bent on self-destruction
Stand between hope and fear
Successful in this step, he is ready for greater ones
Tempest of passion and prejudice
That he tries to lay the fault on us is pure malice
The magnitude of this wonderful sovereign’s littleness
The effect of energetic, uncompromising calumny
The evils resulting from a confederate system of government
This, then, is the reward of forty years’ service to the State
This wonderful sovereign’s littleness oppresses the imagination
To milk, the cow as long as she would give milk
To stifle for ever the right of free enquiry
William Brewster
Wise and honest a man, although he be somewhat longsome
Yes, there are wicked men about
Yesterday is the preceptor of To-morrow
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Abstinence from inquisition
into consciences and private parlour
Acts of violence which
under pretext of religion
Adulation for inferiors
whom they despise
Advanced orthodox party-Puritans
Affection of his friends
and the wrath of his enemies
Allowed the demon of
religious hatred to enter into its body
Almost infinite power
of the meanest of passions
And give advice.
Of that, although always a spendthrift
And now the knife of
another priest-led fanatic
Argument in a circle
Aristocracy of God’s
elect
As with his own people,
keeping no back-door open
At a blow decapitated
France
Atheist, a tyrant, because
he resisted dictation from the clergy
Behead, torture, burn
alive, and bury alive all heretics
Better to be governed
by magistrates than mobs
Burning with bitter
revenge for all the favours he had received
Calumny is often a stronger
and more lasting power than disdain
Casual outbursts of
eternal friendship
Changed his positions
and contradicted himself day by day