Life of Algernon Sidney: With Sketches of Some of His Contemporaries and Extracts from His Correspondence and Political WritingsC. Scribner, 1851 - 334 sider |
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... truth of the principles he maintained with inflexible constancy through life . Had he no other history than this , his name and memory should be cherished by the friends of free institutions . But he has a higher claim on the admiration ...
... truth of the principles he maintained with inflexible constancy through life . Had he no other history than this , his name and memory should be cherished by the friends of free institutions . But he has a higher claim on the admiration ...
Side 37
... truth were finally proscribed from England , he proved his devotion to the faith of his life , by encoun tering voluntarily exile and banishment . Not only had the Independents , or the Republicans , laid hold of the grand idea of civil ...
... truth were finally proscribed from England , he proved his devotion to the faith of his life , by encoun tering voluntarily exile and banishment . Not only had the Independents , or the Republicans , laid hold of the grand idea of civil ...
Side 52
... truth be recorded or taken notice of . I had an intention which is not very fit for a letter . " The " intention " spoken of by Sidney , Sir James Mackintosh conceives , and with good reason , to have been to procure the concurrence of ...
... truth be recorded or taken notice of . I had an intention which is not very fit for a letter . " The " intention " spoken of by Sidney , Sir James Mackintosh conceives , and with good reason , to have been to procure the concurrence of ...
Side 53
... truth , one not easily forgotten by princes and rulers , that however monarchs might theorize on their " di- vine rights , " yet practically the power dwelt in the hands of the people , but its results proved it a lam- entable political ...
... truth , one not easily forgotten by princes and rulers , that however monarchs might theorize on their " di- vine rights , " yet practically the power dwelt in the hands of the people , but its results proved it a lam- entable political ...
Side 84
... man of the purest mind ; a statesman of spot- less integrity ; whose name the progress of intelligence and liberty will erase from the rubric of fanatics and traitors ; and insert high among the aspirants after truth 84 ALGERNON SIDNEY .
... man of the purest mind ; a statesman of spot- less integrity ; whose name the progress of intelligence and liberty will erase from the rubric of fanatics and traitors ; and insert high among the aspirants after truth 84 ALGERNON SIDNEY .
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Algernon Sidney appointed army authority Barebone Parliament Barillon bill Bishop Burnet Bradshaw cause character charge Charles Charles II Chief Justice civil common Commonwealth conduct council court Cromwell Cromwell's crown death declared defence dissolution dissolved doctrines doubtless Duke of Monmouth Duke of York Earl of Leicester elected enemies England Essex evidence Exclusion bill execution Fairfax father favor friends Hampden hands Harrison hath honor House House of Lords Howard Hume indictment Ireton Jeffries judges jury king king's letter liberty Long Parliament Lord Lord Russell Ludlow magistrates mankind Marten ment Milton mind monarchy nation nature never noble occasion Oliver Cromwell opinions Parlia party Penshurst person political popular Prince Prince of Orange principles prisoner Protector proved reason republican resolution royalists Russell says scaffold Shaftesbury Sidney's spirit statesmen temper throne tion trial truth unto usurpation Vane virtue witness
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Side 214 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would iteer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Side 108 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Side 217 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Side 213 - For close designs, and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit: Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace. A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay: And o'er informed the tenement of clay.
Side 214 - And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. Got, while his soul did huddled notions try, And born a shapeless lump, like anarchy. In friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolved to ruin or to rule the state...
Side 108 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost...
Side 42 - He seemed to be a Christian, but in a particular form of his own : he thought it was to be like a divine philosophy in the mind; but he was against all public worship, and every thing that looked like a church.
Side 98 - Gentlemen, if you are met here as private persons, you shall not be disturbed ; but, if as a council of state, this is no place for you. And since you cannot but know what was done at the house this morning, so take notice, that the parliament is dissolved.
Side 108 - Cyriac, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Eight onward.
Side 102 - ... coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that would retch, he must either straight perjure, or split his faith; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.