 | Eyre Evans Crowe, George Payne Rainsford James - Public administration - 1836 - 354 pages
...merchants of the former country. Mazarin, though a prelate of the Roman church, had shown rather a fomlness for the protestants than otherwise ; and Colbert in...ever destined to see. Nor is it unworthy of remark, how universal was the spirit of intolerance amongst men at that moment, how entirely separate and distinct... | |
 | Eyre Evans Crowe, George Payne Rainsford James - Public administration - 1836 - 342 pages
...more decided ; and amongst the first and most * serious measures used against them was the aholition of the court called La Chambre de 1'Edit, which, though...ever destined to see. Nor is it unworthy of remark, how universal was the spirit of intolerance amongst men at that moment, how entirely separate and distinct... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - Statesmen - 1837 - 228 pages
...resisting the religious prejudices of the cleigy of France, and the envious activity of Louvois anil Le Tellier, but he was resisting also a stronger and...more overpowering force — the spirit of the age hi which he lived. It was an age of persecution ; the last, we trust that the world is ever destined... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
...so. Lastly, the tone in which Bacon spoke of the future destiny of mankind fitted him to be a leader of the age in which he lived. It was an age of change and of hope. Men went forth to seek in new-found worlds for the land of gold and for the fountain... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Knowledge, Theory of - 1885 - 394 pages
...writers is want of originality. Now to charge Cicero with want of originality betrays a failure to catch the spirit of the age in which he lived. It was an age of exposition and commentation, not an age of original thought, and this is just as true of the Greek... | |
 | 1908 - 604 pages
...sentences: "The tone in which Bacon spoke of the future destiny of mankind fitted him to be a leader of the age in which he lived. It was an age of change and of hope. Men went forth to seek in new-found worlds for the land of gold and for the fountain... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 216 pages
.... Lastly, the tone in which Bacon spoke of the future destiny of mankind fitted him to be a leader of the age in which he lived. It was an age of change and of hope. Men went forth to seek in new-found worlds for the land of gold and for the fountain... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...so. Lastly, the tone in which Bacon spoke of the future destiny of mankind fitted him to be a leader of the age in which he lived. It was an age of change and hope. Men went forth to seek in new-found worlds for the land of gold and for the fountain... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 458 pages
...understood Bunyan's words in their literal meaning have signally failed to take into account the temper and spirit of the age in which he lived. It was an age of hysterical excitement and religious fanaticism, and however much our sympathies may revolt from the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - History - 390 pages
...writers is want of originality. Now to charge Cicero with want of originality betrays a failure to catch the spirit of the age in which he lived. It was an age of exposition and commentation, not an age of original thought, and this is just as true of the Greek... | |
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Chambre de 1'Edit, which, though composed almost exclusively of catholics, had, according to the confession of the protestants themselves, rendered the most impartial justice in all their causes. Colbert struggled against this proceeding as long as it... 
