The Puritan in Holland, England, and America: An Introduction to American History, Τόμος 1

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Harper, 1892 - 4 σελίδες

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Distribution of land in the United States Its importance
29
Public libraries in England and America
35
Religious liberty in England and America Date of
47
The character of this law
64
American legal reforms copied by England
70
America the old world
76
Americans should not share it
82
CHAPTER I
90
Its importance in the Netherlands
96
Their characteristics
102
Italy never became barbarian The crusades and their
108
Originate woollen manufactures
114
Their townhalls the delight of the artist
120
Foremost in the mechanical arts jewelry tapestry etc
126
Seventeen separate states each with its individual govern
135
Their organization and government Minor republics
142
Antwerp a type of the larger towns
148
First meeting of the StatesGeneral 1477
154
Scholars in the Netherlands Erasmus Vesalius St Alde
160
Victims of the Inquisition greater in number than in
166
Religion and morality not necessarily allied in Europe
168
Eleven years of misrule and Inquisition
174
Disastrous effects of discovery of America on Spanish
180
His undisciplined armies defeated by Alva
186
Suspension of business and Alvas plan for its renewal
192
Bright prospects for the future 1572
199
Massacre of St Bartholomew its causes and disastrous
201
Its surrender Coldblooded butchery of garrison and
209
Rejection of proposed amnesty on condition of giving
215
Contributions of Holland to science
222
CHAPTER IV
228
Death of Requesens 1576
229
The Duke of Anjou brother of the French king proclaimed
236
Difficulties of his task Comparison with Cromwell
242
Origin of religious liberty in the United States Its debt
249
government of the United States
252
Spain marching on to universal dominion
259
Advanced scholars on the Continent
310
Demoralization of all classes Public corruption Fraud
316
Dwellings of the English
322
The castles of the Earl of Northumberland Their accom
328
Fondness for sweets
335
Female attire Introduction from the Netherlands of starch
336
Elizabeth and her acquirements
342
Peers of the realm could not read
348
Foreign opinions of Englishmen
354
Evil influences of Italy and its literature
360
Administration of justice
367
Gambling Its curious forms
373
Scheme of English worthies for plundering Ireland 1569
379
Spanish and Portuguese commerce Its expansion
386
Englishmen plunder Catholics and Protestants alike
392
Elizabeth seizes Philips money Results of her action
398
Francis Drake leads a piratical expedition
401
English Protestantism Influences at work
407
Their missionary work
413
English missionaries educated at Douay and Rome
419
English Puritans Their place in history
425
Opinions of Hume Hallam and Macaulay
426
Why Elizabeth proclaimed Protestantism
432
CHAPTER IX
438
Its author a Puritan His treatment
444
Her communications to the Spanish ministers
450
How the bishops obtained their offices
455
Thomas Cartwright advocates Church reforms on Presbyte
462
Suppressed by Elizabeth
468
High Commission Court organized Its vast powers
474
Early Puritanism dying out under continued persecution
480
ENGLISH PURITANISM
481
Early emigration from the Netherlands into England
487
Greatest missionary work known to history Its peculiar
493
More immediate influence on England
500
Impressionable nature of the English people
503
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Σελίδα 250 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Σελίδα 68 - If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosius the Great, to the establishment of the Lombards in Italy.
Σελίδα 251 - AND WHEREAS we are required by the benevolent principles of rational liberty, not only to expel civil tyranny, but also to guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind...
Σελίδα 338 - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...
Σελίδα 32 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing! and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government — God keep us from them both!
Σελίδα 54 - Above all, I sincerely believe that the public institutions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them.
Σελίδα 46 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.
Σελίδα xxxi - The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman...
Σελίδα 30 - or from the necessity of their common interest, nearly on a general level in respect to property. Their situation demanded a parcelling out and division of the lands, and it may be fairly said, that this necessary act fixed the future frame and form of their government. The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.
Σελίδα 426 - So absolute (says he) was the authority of the crown, that the precious spark of liberty had been kindled, and was preserved, by the Puritans alone ; and it was to this sect that the English owe the whole freedom of their constitution.

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