 All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant...  A History of the American Revolution - Sivu 63tekijä(t) William Shepherd - 1834 - 278 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 sivua
...natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent" (3:121-22). Finally, the importance to the colonists of education, especially their self-education... | |
 | Frederick Vaughan - 2003 - 244 sivua
...no more than a sort of private sect, not composing most probably the tenth of the people." Whereas the religion "most prevalent in our northern colonies...principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent arid the Protestantism of the Protestant religion." 10 In continental Europe, by contrast, especially... | |
 | Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita) - 2003 - 330 sivua
...of that kind which is most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion." Indeed, religion in "our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance." 1 Joseph Galloway made the same point, though in less temperate language, five years later in his Historical... | |
 | Samuel P. Huntington - 2004 - 457 sivua
...Protestants, and of that kind which is the most averse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...and the protestantism of the Protestant religion." 10 This dissidence was manifest from the first with the settlements of the Pilgrims and the Puritans... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 sivua
...shows an 'apparently extensive understanding' of American society. This verdict needs reconsideration. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...and the protestantism of the protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations, agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2005 - 292 sivua
...submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favorable to Liberty, but built upon it.... All protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. ' 5 John Jay (1817-94), grandson of the first Supreme Court Chief Justice, was manager of New York's... | |
 | James Grant - 2005 - 572 sivua
...his New England readers would still have made the connection. "All Protestantism," Burke proceeded, "even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent....refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the feidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion."" Inclusion, tolerance, and... | |
 | John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 sivua
...Second Speech, "The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement of the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion" (453). It was not merely as a paragon of love of country, however, that Washington qualified as high... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 sivua
...natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit... | |
 | Lawrence E. Harrison, Jerome Kagan - 2006 - 418 sivua
...all implicit submission of mind and opinion." Though "all Protestantism, ...is a sort of dissent,... the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies...of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."12 This dissidence was manifest in the first settlements of Pilgrims and Puritans in New... | |
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