Prize Essay on Vaticanism: Exposition and Defence of Prince Bismarck's Anti-ultramontane Policy: Showing the Difference Between the Present State of the Romish Question in Germany and Great Britain

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1876 - 94 Seiten

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Seite 84 - I do declare, That I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other Foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Temporal or Civil Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, or Pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm...
Seite 29 - And we do command and interdict all and every, the noblemen, subjects, people, and others aforesaid, that they presume not to obey her or her monitions, mandates, and laws ; and those which shall do the contrary, we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema.
Seite 27 - My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight.
Seite 36 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Seite 83 - It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent...
Seite 45 - The lie that burned thy father's bones to dust, That first adjudged them heretics, then sent Their souls to Heaven, and cursed them as they went ? The lie that Scripture strips of its disguise, And execrates above all other lies, The lie that claps a lock on mercy's plan, And gives the key to yon infirm old man...
Seite 34 - But during the last three centuries, to stunt the growth of the human mind has been her chief object. Throughout Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been made, in spite of her, and has everywhere been made in inverse proportion to her power.
Seite 94 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Seite 11 - If, then, the civil power be not competent to decide the limits of the spiritual power, and if the spiritual power can define, with a divine certainty, its own limits, it is evidently supreme. Or, in other words, the spiritual power knows, with divine certainty, the limits of its own jurisdiction: and it knows therefore the limits and the competence of the civil power.
Seite 20 - I am the subject of no prince, and I claim more than this. I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of the consciences of men ; of the peasant that tills the field, and the prince that sits on the throne ; of the household that lives in the shade of privacy, and the Legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the sole, last, Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong.

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