 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 pàgines
...historian, has taken any notice of them. So absolute, indeed, was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by the puritants alone j and it was to this sect, whose principles appear so frivolous and habits so ridiculous,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1815 - 702 pàgines
...arose and advanced together*.' ' So absolute,' be observes, ' was the authority of the crown, that the precious ' spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by ' the Puritans alone ; audit was (is) to this sect that the English ' owe the whole freedom of their constitution !f Mr.... | |
 | 1818 - 174 pàgines
...which the sincerely pious, when consistent with themselves, must be the foremost to maintain. Some of them also, even in these times, espouse those generous...of their faults entitle them to be ranked among the rifst benefactors of their country*. * " The precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pàgines
...Hume. (Hist. Eng. vol. v. pp. 1tS3, 460.) " So absolute indeed was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans ; and it was to this sect whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so ridiculous, that the... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1830 - 250 pàgines
...out the grand idea of a free, elective gov*"So absolute indeed was the authority "of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans ; and it was to this sect whose principles appear so frivolous, and habits so rediculous, that the... | |
 | 1832 - 460 pàgines
...courage redeemed our civil as well as our religious freedom, and compelled an enemy to confess, that " the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved by them alone," and that "to them we owe the whole freedom of our constitution."* Let those who revile... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pàgines
...and through the triumph of their principles, the British Constitution became firmly established. " The precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone," says the great English historian to whom we have already referred— a historian who has been justly... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 pàgines
...cause of both religion and liberty, and who bore to the Puritans a special dislike. Mr. Hume says, " The precious spark, of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone."* As a body, the Puritans studiously avoided separation from the Established Church. What they desired... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 390 pàgines
...cause of both religion and liberty, and who bore to the Puritans a special dislike. Mr. Hume says, " The precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans alone. "* As a body, the Puritans studiously avoided separation from the Established Church. What they desired... | |
 | 1844 - 514 pàgines
...been no state without a king. Says that bitter hater of the Puritans and Presbyterians, David Hume, "The precious spark of liberty had been kindled and was preserved by the Puritans, * * and * * to this sect * * * * the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution." And again,... | |
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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 owe the whole freedom of their constitution."—Hume, History... 
