 To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good...  The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. - Pagina 248door Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 446 pagina’s
...preface he began his book — a small quarto, about as big as a man's hand — with the assertion that " to promote a woman to bear rule', superiority, dominion,...repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrary to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 470 pagina’s
...already displayed by Mary Tudor, Catherine do* Medici, and Mary of Guise. Ivnox laboured to prove that ' to promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm is repugnant to nature, contrary to God, and, finally, it is the ' fully reign over a people professing... | |
 | 1898 - 388 pagina’s
...safe places of exile. We have nothing to do with the main thesis of Knox's diatribe, which is that ' to promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm is repugnant to nature, contrary to God, and, finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity... | |
 | Francis Paget - 1899 - 292 pagina’s
..."Regiment of Women.'' Published anonymously in 1558, but acknowledged by John Knox in the same year as his. "To promote a Woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...approved ordinance ; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of " all equity and justice." (The Works of John Knox, Wodrow Society, vol. iv, p. 373.)... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1899 - 320 pagina’s
...signifying "government." Only that and nothing more. The gist of the brochure was in the first sentence : "To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion...revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally, it is a subversion of all equity and justice." Thereupon he fell furiously to work to prove his hypothesis... | |
 | Francis Paget (bp. of Oxford) - 1899 - 288 pagina’s
...of IVbmen.'' Published anonymously in 1558, but acknowledged by John Knox in the same year as his. " To promote a Woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...to His revealed will and " approved ordinance ; and f1nally, it is the subversion of good order, of " all equity and justice." (The Works of John Knox,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pagina’s
...preface he began his book, a small quarto, about as big as a man's hand, with the assertion that " the spring and summer of 1370 Chaucer was abroad on the King's service. good order, of all equity and justice." Women are not worthy to rule. " I exempt," said Knox, " such... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1901 - 448 pagina’s
...and read aloud to the devoted trio the splendidly purple passage in which he declares that : — " To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His approved will, and approved ordinance ; and finally it is the subversion of all equity and justice."... | |
 | Francis Henry Gribble - 1901 - 440 pagina’s
...nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His approved will, and approved ordinance ; and finally it is the subversion of all equity and justice." To visualise that scene is, in a measure, to realise John Knox ; but, to make the portrait complete,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1902 - 740 pagina’s
...vehement. In the first, he taught that the rule of a woman was " repugnant to nature, a con" tuinely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will and " approved ordinance, and finally the subversion of all equity and "justice ; " in the second blast he intended to teach, that governors... | |
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