‘I despair when I look at the stuff that floods out of the printing presses now; Commonwealth men ranting against the rich, Calvin’s people’s warning of hellfire and the Apocalypse, the mad prophecies and lewd stories, the biting and
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“Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called ‘policy’, and people who did it were ‘politicians’.”
― A Column of Fire
― A Column of Fire
“* Certainly, it is impossible to understand the course of the Powder Treason from now on unless one takes into account the magnetism of Robert Catesby.”
― The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
― The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
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