Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, Volume 11Huguenot Society of London., 1917 - Huguenots "A bibliography of some works relating to the Huguenot refugees, whence they came, where they settled": v. 1, pp. [130-149]. |
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Page 163 - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Page 30 - Shall I hold out hopes to my erring Protestant brother that I will not meddle with his creed if he will not meddle with mine ? Shall I tempt him to forget that he has no more right to his religious views than he has to my purse, or my house, or my lifeblood ? No. Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself ; for it is the truth itself.
Page 72 - He himself tells us that he saw visions, and received his apostleship by revelation — not necessarily at the time of, or immediately after, his conversion, but still at some period or other in his life ; it would be the most natural thing in the world for the writer of the...
Page 81 - When a man to a fair for a show brings a lion, 'Tis usual a monkey the sign-post to tie on ; But here the old custom reversed is seen, For the lion's without, and the monkey's within.
Page 30 - I lead him to think that religion is a matter for private opinion, and tempt him to forget that he has no more right to his religious views than he has to my purse, or my house, or my life-blood ? No ! Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds. It is intolerance itself, for it is truth itself.
Page 218 - Tis there the daisy, and the sweet carnation, The blooming pink, and the rose so fair; Likewise the lily, and the daffodilly — All flowers that scent the sweet open air.
Page 389 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Page 71 - The old gentleman, being taken by surprise, was beginning to apologise ; but Handel assured him there was no necessity ; that the music was really bad, having been composed hastily, and his time for the production limited ; and that the opinion given was as correct as it was honest.
Page 39 - For our own selves, we are prepared to maintain that it is no more morally wrong to put a man to death for heresy than for murder ! — that in many cases persecution for religious opinions is not only permissible, but highly advisable and necessary...
Page 305 - To elucidate local history in the manner in which it ought to be elucidated is to rescue the worthy from oblivion ; to delineate the changes of manners and the progress of arts ; to call back to the fancy the pomp and splendour of ages that are gone ; to restore the ruined castle ; to re-people the deserted mansion ; and to bid for a moment the grave render back its inhabitants to the fond eye of regret.