 | John Keble - 1868 - Страниц: 608
...He, it is likely, looked for such a deliverance chiefly, as might be wrought by an arm of flesh ; for a time when every man should sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and eat of the fruit of his land in peace, hearing and obeying the law of Moses.... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1882 - Страниц: 390
...England was that it should enjoy unshackled religious liberty. His ideal was the old Hebrew one, that every man should sit under his own vine and his own fig tree. For the party politics of the hour he had no taste whatever, and felt indifferent to the bearings of... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1882 - Страниц: 394
...England was that it should enjoy unshackled religious liberty. His ideal was the old Hebrew one, that every man should sit under his own vine and his own fig tree. For the party politics of the hour he had no taste whatever, and felt indifferent to the bearings of... | |
 | 1912 - Страниц: 350
...prophet and patriot alike unite in saying that the noblest dream of man is of a time when each may sit " under his own vine and his own fig tree and none durst make him afraid." Arthur Young was well inspired when he said: " Give a man the secure possession... | |
 | 1903 - Страниц: 320
...Palestine were well bred enough to take themselves off without an inspector to harry them, and a man could sit under his own vine and his own fig tree and none could make him afraid. We are coming back to the times, picturesque but uncomfortable, of which we... | |
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... was he a constitutional Whig. What exactly his politics were, apart from religion, it is difficult to say. He looked at politics through the medium of his religion, and his first and last desire for England was that it should enjoy unshackled religious... 