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It was among the fishers of Fife that Knox began his crusade against popery; and from their very midst, in later days, sprang the champion of the Free Kirk. Otherwise rebellions and revolutions troubled them little. Whether Scotland's king sat in Edinburgh or London whether Prince Charles or George of Hanover reigned, was to them of small importance.
Flattered vanity, and excitement, leading up almost from the first day to instinctive and fierce revolt intervals of acquiescence, of wild determination to be happy, drowned in fresh rebellions of soul and sense through these alternations the hours had rushed on, culminating in her furtive and sudden escape from the man of whom she was now in mad fear her blind flight for "home."
A new religion was about to be founded, and persecutions at once began, for religions only spring up amidst vexations and rebellions. And even as it was long ago at Jerusalem, when the tidings of miracles spread, the civil authorities the Public Prosecutor, the Justice of the Peace, the Mayor, and particularly the Prefect of Tarbes were all roused and began to bestir themselves.
During the next five years he put down a series of rebellions on the part of the native English, after which he and his descendants were acknowledged as sole kings of England. The Norman Conquest was not, however, a mere change of dynasty. It led to at least three other changes of the utmost importance.
But the rebellions vassals could not maintain their usurpations without the aid of their own dependants, whose assistance they were compelled to purchase by new concessions. At the same time the church became powerful through pious usurpations and donations, and its abbey lands and episcopal sees acquired an independent existence.
"I remember a line in Dryden: "'And every poet is the monarch's friend, "it ought to be reversed." "Nay," said Johnson, "there are finer lines in Dryden on this subject: "'For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend." General Paoli observed that "successful rebels might be." "Happy rebellions," interjected Martinelli. "We have no such phrase," cried Goldsmith.
In showing that the Nabob was driven to this robbery of his relatives by other considerations than those of the pretended rebellion, which was afterwards conjured up by Mr. Hastings to justify it, he says, "The fact is, that through all his defences through all his various false suggestions through all these various rebellions and disaffections, Mr.
There are rebellions, there is no army, the pharaoh is in poverty; but the treasure in the labyrinth is increasing from generation to generation."
But the rebellions vassals could not maintain their usurpations without the aid of their own dependants, whose assistance they were compelled to purchase by new concessions. At the same time the church became powerful through pious usurpations and donations, and its abbey lands and episcopal sees acquired an independent existence.
The Liburnians helped Octavius Augustus in the naval battle of Actium; and, when he became emperor, he did much for Dalmatia, in return for the assistance rendered. Yet the rebellions continued, mainly owing to the rapacity of the governors sent from Rome, as is proved by the answer of Batone to Tiberius, reported by Dion Cassius.
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