 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...like clay in the hands of the potter, or like dead carcafes incapable of refiftance. Such a Cngular form of policy could not fail to imprefs its character...fuch a perfect defpotifm, exercifed not over monks mut up in the cells of a convent, but over men dirperfed among all the nations of the earth. As the... | |
 | William Robertson - 1787 - 478 pages
...the potter, or like dead carcafes incapable of refiftance m. Such a fingular form of policy could ^ot fail to imprefs its character on all the. members...men difperfed among all the nations of the earth. . . i • • «if, AS the conftitutions of the order veft, in the Geces which ^ «naMe him neral,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1790 - 434 pages
...inclinations of their own wills, and the fentiments of their own tmderftandings. There is not in the annab of mankind any example of fuch a perfect defpotifm, exercifed not over monks confined in the cells of a convent, but over men difperfed among all the nations of the earth. As the... | |
 | George Gregory - Church history - 1795 - 594 pages
...obedience, but to refign to him the inclinations of their wills, and the fentiments of their minds. There is not in the annals of mankind any example of fuch abfolute defpotifm, exercifed not over monks confined in the cells of a convent, bueover mendifperfed... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...like clay in the hands of the potter, or like dead carcafes incapable of refinance. 'Such a finpular form of policy could not fail to imprefs its character...not, in the annals of mankind, any example of fuch a perfeft dcfpotifm, exercifed not over monks (hut up in the cells of a convent, but over men d if per... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1798 - 440 pages
...inftruments, like clay in the hands of the potter ; or like dead carcafes incapable of refiftance",. Such a fingular form of policy could not fail to imprefs...monks fhut up in the cells of a convent, but over Inen difperfed among all the nations of the earth. As the conftitutions of the order veft in the general... | |
 | William Robertson - 1802 - 482 pages
...like clay in the hands of the potter, or like dead carcafes incapable of refiftance m. Such a fmgular form of policy could not fail to imprefs its character...not in the annals of mankind any example of fuch a perfecl defpotifm, exercifed not over monks fliut up in the cells of a convent, but over men difperfed... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...potter, or meremachines incapable of resistance. Such a singular form of policy could not fail to impress its character on all the members of the Order, and...There is not in the annals of mankind any example of such a. perfect despotism exercised, be it observed, not over monks shut up in the cells of a convent,... | |
 | Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...nke dead carcases incapable of resistance. Such a singular form of policy could not fail to impress its character on all the members of the order, and...There is not In the annals of mankind any example of such a perfect despotism, exercised not over monks shut up in the cells of a convent, but over men... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 486 pages
...like dead carcases ineapable of resistance*. Such a singular form of policy could not fail to impress its character on all the members of the order, and...There is not in the annals of mankind any example of such a perfect despotism, exercised not over monks shut up in the cells of a convent, but over men... | |
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Such a singular form of policy could not fail to impress its character on all the members of the order, and to give a peculiar force to all its operations. There is not in the annals of mankind any example of such a perfect despotism exercised, not over... 
