 | 1859 - 1200 էջ
...contrast between countries divided by this single barrier. A sentence of Lord Macaulay's is in point : " Whoever passes, in Germany, from a Roman Catholic...other side of the Atlantic, the same law prevails. Th« Protestants of the United States have left far behind them the Roman Catholics of Mexico, Peru,... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 էջ
...Christendom, whatever advance has been made in knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest...other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails." But, continued Mr. Lord, Ireland from first to last has been injured by Maynooth, and we have not only... | |
 | 1849 - 606 էջ
...principality, in Switzerland from a Roman-catholic to a Protestant canton, in Ireland from a Roman-calholic to a Protestant county, finds that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilization. Ou the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United States have... | |
 | 1867 - 826 էջ
...judgment as to the tendensy of papal domination. The descent * Wylio's " Rome and Civil Liberty," p. 191. of Spain, once the first among monarchies, to the...from a lower to a higher grade of civilization."* Ignorance, according to Popery, is the mother of devotion. It certainly is an essential source of her... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 էջ
...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...county, finds that he has passed from a lower to a VOL. i. 4 higher grade of civilization. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 էջ
...in freedom, in wealth, anil in the arts of life, has been made in spite of her, and has even-where been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest...that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 էջ
...knowledge, in freedom, in wealth, and in the arts of life, has been made in spite of her, and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power. The loveliest...that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 էջ
...of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectu.il torpor, while Protestant countries, once proverbial...that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United... | |
 | 1849 - 668 էջ
...industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and pouts. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally...that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 էջ
...are, and what, four hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Home with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to...that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilisation. On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails. The Protestants of the United... | |
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Whoever passes in Germany from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant principality, in Switzerland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant canton, in Ireland from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant county, finds that he has passed from a lower to a higher grade... 
