Historic Parallels to L'affaire Dreyfus

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Hutchinson & Company, 1900 - 268 sivua
 

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Sivu 53 - a religion which demanded from its followers services directly opposed to the first principles of morality. He declared that, in his judgment, Pagans who had never heard the name of Christ, and who were guided only by the light of nature, were more trustworthy members of civil society than men who had been
Sivu 125 - to be pilloried in Palace Yard, to be led round Westminster Hall with an inscription declaring his infamy over his head, to be pilloried again in front of the Royal Exchange, to be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and, after
Sivu 53 - told the House of Commons from the pulpit that it was their duty to make effectual provisions against the propagation of a religion more mischievous than irreligion itself, a religion which demanded from its followers services directly opposed to the first principles of morality.
Sivu 54 - this marriage, there was reason to fear that they might be bred Roman Catholics, and that a long succession of princes hostile to the established faith might sit on the English throne. The constitution had recently been violated
Sivu 122 - had been all horror and despair; and with his last breath he had told his attendants to throw him into a ditch like a dog, for that he was not fit to sleep in a Christian burial-ground.
Sivu 53 - He declared that, in his judgment, Pagans who had never heard the name of Christ, and who were guided only by the light of nature, were more trustworthy members of civil society than men who had been
Sivu 117 - His Majesty was in a very good humour, and took up some time in displaying to us the fallacy and emptiness of those who pretend to a fuller measure of sanctity than their neighbours, and pronounced them to be, for the most part, abominable hypocrites and the most arrant knaves.
Sivu 128 - In a few weeks he brought his sentence before the House of Lords by a ' writ of error.' This is a species of appeal which raises no question of fact. The Lords,
Sivu 121 - be true, the King indignantly replied, " Then, my lord, be his blood on your own conscience. You might have saved him if you would. I cannot pardon him, because I dare not.
Sivu 53 - forms of idolatry ought not to be prohibited under penal sanctions, contended that the Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics had no claim to toleration.

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