| William Banks Slaughter - 1878 - 318 pages
...the excitement under which he had labored, by saying " during the throes and convulsions of the Old World, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man seeking through blood and slaughter his long lost liberty, it is not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should have reached this distant... | |
| John Church Hamilton - 1879 - 978 pages
...liberty and even life itself, are but dreary things." He denounced political intolerance as being, " as despotic as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions" as those which "religious intolerance had produced." "Every difference of opinion," he declared, "is... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world ; during the agonising spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...infuriated man, seeking, through blood and slaughter, his long lost liberty — it is not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated men, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation... | |
| Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...; that this should be more felt and feared by some than by others ; that this should divide opinions as to measures of safety. But every difference of... | |
| Henry Adams - 1889 - 468 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...; that this should be more felt and feared by some than by others; that this should divide opinions as to measures difference of opinion is not a difare... | |
| Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 pages
...religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as...throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agouizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was... | |
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