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Page 489 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition—certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
Page 77 - Do what you can, out of hand, and without long tarrying, to beat down and overthrow the castle, sack Holyrood house, and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye conveniently can ; sack Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword, without exception, when any resistance shall be made against you...
Page 488 - Conscience is a personal guide, and I use it because I must use myself; I am as little able to think by any mind but my own as to breathe with another's lungs. Conscience is nearer to me than any other means of knowledge.
Page 105 - And therewith every man put on his steel bonnet. There was heard nothing of the queen's part but ' My joys, my hearts, what ails you? Me means no evil to you nor to your preachers. The bishops shall do you no wrong.
Page 416 - Light, which shaid away The darkness from the light, And set a ruler o'er the day, Another o'er the night ; Thy glory, when the day forth flies, More vively does appear, Than at midday unto our eyes The shining sun is clear.
Page 64 - But now (said he) the avarice of priests and the ignorance of ' their office, has caused it altogether to be vilipended; for ' the priest (said he) whose duty and office...
Page 82 - ... have no power to slay the soul. Some have said of me, that I taught that the soul of man should sleep until the last day ; but I know surely, and my faith is such, that my soul shall sup with my Saviour this night, or it be six hours, for whom I suffer this.
Page 105 - Madam, we know that this is the malice and device of these knaves and of that bastard (meaning the Bishop of St. Andrews) that stands by you. We avow to God, we shall make a day of it. They oppress us and our tenants for feeding of their idle bellies ; they trouble our preachers and would murder them and us. Shall we suffer this any longer? No, Madam, it shall not be.
Page 150 - I say (note the day, and bear witness after), whensoever the Nobility of Scotland professing the Lord Jesus, consents that an infidel (and all Papists are infidels) shall be head to your Sovereign, ye do so far as in ye lieth to banish Christ Jesus from this Realm; ye bring God's vengeance upon the country, a plague upon yourself, and perchance ye shall do small comfort to your Sovereign.
Page 484 - It is that, in connexion with these phenomena, a great philosophic-religious doctrine, flourishing in the lower culture but dwindling in the higher, has re-established itself in full vigour. The world is again swarming with intelligent and powerful disembodied spiritual beings, whose direct action on thought and matter is again confidently asserted, as in those times and countries where physical science had not as yet so far succeeded in extruding these spirits and their influences from the system...