 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 sider
...extreme tone in private conversation it parodied with daring bluntness. Defoe ironically recommended that " whoever was found at a conventicle should be...banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged," and his speech was so plain that while the Highfliers gasped for breath, the Dissenters, on their side,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 sider
...extreme tone in private conversation it parodied with daring bluntness. Defoe ironically recommended that " whoever was found at a conventicle should be...banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged," and his speech was so plain that while the Highfliers gasped for breath, the Dissenters, on their side,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 sider
...extreme tone in private conversation it parodied with daring bluntness. Defoe ironically recommended that "whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged," and his speech was so plain that while the Highfliers gasped for breath, the Dissenters, on their side,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1889 - 456 sider
...chosen sheriffs and mayors would go to forty churches rather than be hanged If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished tire nation .and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - 1890 - 74 sider
...from the face of the land ! " The means of effecting this reform are simple. " If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found...be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale." How dare the people be supine as to this matter ? " Alas ! the Church of England. What with Popery... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1891 - 398 sider
...the shortest way with the Dissenters, is propounded in this passage : — " If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found...would all come to church, and one age would make us one again. To talk of five shillings a month for not coming to the Sacrament, and one shilling per... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - 462 sider
...extreme tone in private conversation it parodied with daring bluntness. Defoe ironically recommended that " whoever was found at a conventicle should be...banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged," and his speech was so plain that while the Highfliers gasped for breath, the Dissenters, on their side,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 sider
...extreme tone in private conversation it parodied with daring bluntness. Defoe ironically recommended that " whoever was found at a conventicle should be...banished the nation, and the preacher be hanged," and his speech was so plain that while the Highfliers gasped for breath, the Dissenters, on their side,... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1892 - 338 sider
...chosen sheriffs and mayors would go to forty churches rather than be hanged. If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found...should be banished the nation and the preacher be anged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come to church, and one age would make... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 sider
...party. Defoe assumed the character of a bigoted " High-flyer," and proposed, with apparent seriousness, that " whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished the nation, and the preacher hanged." So well was the character maintained that a Fellow of Cambridge College wrote to his bookseller,... | |
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If one severe law were made and punctually executed, that whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished th'e nation and the preacher be hanged, we should soon see an end of the tale. They would all come to church, and one age would make us all... 
