A Refutation of the Chief Doctrines of the Parliamentary Reformers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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They bawl for freedom in their senseless mood,
Yet still revolt when truth would set them free,
Licence they mean, when they cry liberty,
For who loves that must first be wise and good. Milton.

"He that goeth about," says the judicious Hooker, "to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers." The reason of this is well expressed by Tacitus. "Detraction and envy are always listened to with attention, as the maligant effusions seem to be dictated by a false spirit of liberty." "Obtredatio et livor pronis auribus accipiuntur; quippe malignitali falsa species libertatis inest."

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