...ind was pursuing some other and more general design than to set one or two Englishmen of the nineteenth century be- yond the reach of needs and duties... ...Revenge,’ ‘Duells,’ ‘Cruelty,’ ‘A Defence of some of the Ceremonies of the English Liturgie– to wit– Bowing at the Name of Jesus, The frequent repetit... ...alist Jericho– but to the stealthy change that has come over the spirit of Englishmen and English legislation. A little while ago, and we were still f... ...give you stale sneers at all the celebrated speakers. He was the terror of essayists at the Speculative or the Forensic. In social qualities he seems ... ...sible in 92 Robert Louis Stevenson better things. As you send a man to an English University that he may have his prejudices rubbed off, you might se... ...ment’; and perhaps we may trace a similar spirit in the com- pilers of the English Catechism, and the affectionate interest with which they linger rou...