...high-church party was inclined to proceed to rigorous measures against the sectaries, Defoe wrote " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church;" an ironical recommendation of persecution, but written in so serious a strain, that many persons at...

...himself into trouble a few years before the impeachment of the High Church Doctor. In 1702 he published ' The shortest way with the Dissenters ; or, proposals for ' the establishment of the Church.' Though in reality a satire of exquisite irony from beginning to end, its true nature was so cunningly...

...earl of Ranelagh, paymaster general of the army, with flagrant mismanagement. He acquitted himself d While this bill was depending, Daniel de Foe published...''The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; or Proposals tor the Establishment of the Church." The piece was » severe satire on the violence of the church...

...mixed and heterogenous breed, scarcely any of which could lay claim to native purity of blood. His "Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church ;" became a subject of complaint in the House of Commons, and was voted a seditious libel, and burnt...

...mixed and heterogeneous breed, scarcely any of which could lay claim to native purity of blood. His " Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church," became a subject of complaint in the House of Commons, and was voted a seditious libel, and burnt by...

...persisted in rejecting them ; the bill miscarried, and both nouses published their proceedings by way df appeal to the nation/ A bill was now brought into...severe satire on the violence of the church party. Th& commons ordered it to be burned by th«, hands of the common hangman, and the author to be prosecuted....

...Test of the Church of ^ 'England's Loyalty, or, Whiggish Loyalty and Church Loyalty compared, 402. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or, \ Proposals for the Establishment of the Church, 425. A brief * Explanation of a late Pamphlet, entituled, The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, 441....

...spirit." Another pamphlet more nearly allied to wit, but less courteous in its style, is intitled, " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters : or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. With its Author's Brief Explication considered ; his name exposed ; his practices detected ; and his...

...Occasional Conformity, Shewing that the Dissenters are no ways Concerned in it. London. 1702. 4to. 34. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. London. 1702. 4to. 35. A Brief Explanation of a late Pamphlet, intitled, The Shortest Way with the...

...spirit." Another pamphlet more nearly allied to wit, but less courteous in its style, is intitled, " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters : or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. With its Author's Brief Explication considered ; his name exposed ; his practices detected ; and his...