South African Traits

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J. Gemmell, 1808 - 301 страници
 

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Страница 395 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Страница 270 - Finally, Mrs. Hutchinson is confined. Then the Governor " invited all the ministers to dinner, and propounded his doubt and the ground thereof to them. None of them could defend their practice with any satisfactory reason, but the tradition of the Church from the primitive times, and their main buckler of federal holiness, which Tombs and Denne had excellently overthrown. He and his wife then, professing themselves unsatisfied, desired their opinions.
Страница 18 - ... in all his motions ; he was apt for any bodily exercise, and any that he did became him ; he could dance admirably well, but neither in youth nor riper...
Страница 313 - Were only founded on Minerva's aid. But from the time when impious Diomede, And false Ulysses, that inventive head, Her fatal image from the temple drew...
Страница 41 - ... he found withall, that though she was modest, she was accostable and willing to entertaine his acquaintance^ This soone past into a mutuall friendship betweene them, and though she innocently thought nothing of love, yet was she glad to 92 have acquir'd such a friend, who had wisedome and vertue enough to be trusted with her...
Страница 18 - He was so just to his own honour that he many times forbore things lawful and delightful to him, rather than he would give any one occasion of scandal. Of all lies he most hated hypocrisy...
Страница 183 - Then were again seen in the streets faces which called up strange and terrible recollections of the days when the saints, with the high praises of God in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands, had bound kings with chains, and nobles with links of iron. Then were again heard voices which had shouted, " Privilege
Страница 43 - married her as soon as she was able to quit the chamber, when the priest and all that saw her were affrighted to look on her. But God," she adds, with a not ungraceful vanity, "recompensed his justice and constancy, by restoring her as well as before.
Страница 260 - And thus being well armed within by the satisfaction of their own consciences, and without, by good iron arms, they would as one man stand firmly and charge desperately.
Страница 305 - ... it might one day come to be again disputed among men, yet both he and others thought they could not refuse it without giving up the people of God, whom they had led forth and engaged themselves unto by the oath of God, 'into the hands of God's and their enemies ; and therefore he cast himself upon God's protection, acting according to the dictates of a conscience which he had sought the Lord to guide, and accordingly the Lord did signalize his favour afterwards to him.

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