 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 strani
...trod the shores of New England ; and in his extreme old age it was the last pulsation of his heart. He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of contcience, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy... | |
 | William Hague - 1839 - 242 strani
...comparing him with them, it is but just to say in the words of a living historian,! " He was the first in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the...the equality of opinions before the law, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." From first to... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 strani
...and at last, surmounting the highest hills, utters his clear carols through the skies of morning. 1 He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of CHAP. conscience, the equality of opinions before the law, —^ and in its defence he was the harbinger... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 strani
...himself " ready to be bound and banished, and even to die in New England," rather than renounce them. He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert,...conscience, the equality of opinions before the law. The early advocates of toleration in England, still clinging to the necessity of positive regulations,... | |
 | 1866 - 580 strani
...and peace. " Roger Williams was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plentitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, — the equality of opinions before the law; and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor (for Taylor... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 strani
...and at last, surmounting the highest hills, utters his clear carols through the skies of morning.1 He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of 1 John Cotton's Reply, 2. CHAP. conscience, the equality of opinions before the law , — v~- and in... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 strani
...trod the shores of New England; and in his extreme old age it was the last pulsation of his heart. He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert,...plenitude, the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." Dr.... | |
 | Adiel SHERWOOD - 1850 - 150 strani
...has never departed. Alluding to Roger Williams, Bancroft, the Historian, observes : "He was the first in modern Christendom, to assert in its plenitude...the equality of opinions before the law, and in its defence, he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and superior of Jeremy Taylor." (See his Hist.... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 638 strani
...quintuple crime of treason, fratricide, matricide, infanticide, and suicide, a compound * Roger Wiiliams was the first person in modern Christendom to assert...the equality of opinions before the law ; and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor. And this may... | |
 | 1852 - 746 strani
...felony of nonconformity, and give an equal protection to every form of religious faith. Roger Williams was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law ; and he, it must be borne in mind,... | |
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He was the first person in modern Christendom to assert in its plenitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions before the law; and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor. 
