 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 - Page 53by William Shepherd - 1834 - 278 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 120 pages
...natural liberty. Their very existence 20 depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive,...the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dis25 sent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. This religion, under a variety of denominations... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1894 - 220 pages
...natural liberty. Their very existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim. All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most 30 prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1894 - 476 pages
...1841, he established tin1 'Nonconformist,' a weekly publication with tin' motto and principle of ' The Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant Religion.' The first number appeared on 14 April 1841. Miall was appointed editor, and, settling at Stoke Newington,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1894 - 906 pages
...blush. Somebody's unlucky statement that English was the best breed in the world ; the motto about the " dissidence of dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion ;" the notice of Wragg — the woman who was taken up for childmurder ; the assertion of The Saturday Review... | |
 | John Reginald Homer Weaver, Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1917 - 1380 pages
...March 1841 , he established the 'Nonconformist,' a weekly publication with the motto and principle of ' The Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant Religion.' The first number appeared on 14 April 1841. Miall was appointed editor, and, settling at Stoke Newington,... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 pages
...This disposition found its strongest expression among the Congregationalists. Congregationalism was "a refinement on the principle of resistance: it is...and the protestantism of the Protestant religion." In the south, the colonists owned slaves. The presence of slavery made men jealous of their liberty.... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay - 1983 - 240 pages
...general secular interest, its chief function was declared in the motto, derived from a speech by Burke, 'the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion'. The single-mindedness of Mull's campaign for Church disestablishment won him a public reputation for narrow,... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 pages
...ability. The motto, the standard, the profession of faith which this organ of theirs carries aloft, is: 'The Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.' There is sweetness and light, and an ideal of complete harmonious human perfection ! One need not go... | |
 | William S. Dietrich - 1991 - 360 pages
...a dissenter. Edmund Burke fingered precisely this side of the American character when he declared: "All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But [in America there] is a refinement of the principles of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent,... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 428 pages
...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 hut in the communion of the spirit... | |
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