Not content with such edicts, the kings of France sometimes banished the whole nation from their dominions, seizing their effects at the same time; and a season of alternative severity and toleration continued till, under Charles VI.
But in his actuality a boy has very little to commend him to the tolerationof other human beings.
She was where she was by a toleration of certain social facts which corresponds in Europe to our reverence for the vested interests.
When toleration becomes the subject of debate in the Constituent Assembly we perceive the direction things are taking.
The toleration that Paul is commending is a toleration, not with regard to matters of doctrine, but with regard to methods of work.
Toleration, indeed, is on everyone's lips; but it is not the kind of toleration that Paul means.
They had abolished patronage; they had sanctioned the rabbling of the episcopal clergy; they had refused to pass a Toleration Act.
Footnote 8: The secret article by which the Duke of Savoy bound himself to grant toleration to the Waldenses is in Dumont's collection.
His colonial policy had not been a success, and he was known to have no toleration for the Reds.
The only fault of which he can be accused was that of too great toleration of the speculative propensities of his son-in-law.
Grévy's Eli-like toleration of the sins of his daughter's husband caused his overthrow.
Its collective support of the Labour Party combined with toleration of Liberals suited a world of real men who can seldom be arranged on tidy and geometrical lines.
A few years later the Labour Party followed, more than Fabian in its toleration in the matter of opinions, and virtually, though not formally, Fabian in its political policy.
The Buddhists have founded no Inquisition; they have combined the zeal which converted kingdoms with a toleration almost inexplicable to our Western experience.
The toleration of Rome consisted in this, that as long as there was outward conformity to prescribed observances, it troubled itself very little about opinions.
The transfer of territory from Austria to Prussia meant the extension of toleration in that territory.
He made the acquaintance of the namesake who had written the articles on watch-making in the Encyclopædia, and whose son had written the more famous articles on Toleration and Virtue.
Toleration was chief among the philosophic watchwords, and seeing that great device on her banners, the Encyclopædic party asked no further questions.
This very act of banishment might serve as an example of toleration and humanity.
To conclude, toleration has never yet excited civil wars, whereas its opposite has filled the earth with slaughter and desolation.
These two examples, then, have not the least connection with persecution for religion’s sake; and the spirit of non-toleration must certainly be founded upon very false principles when it everywhere seeks such idle pretexts.
This treatise on toleration is a petition which humanity with all submission presents to power and prudence.
Can we desire a stronger instance that the Romans looked upon toleration as the most sacred of all the laws of nations?
Mr. Langworthy nodded with resigned toleration of all that might have influenced her judgment and his own.
The course, vigorous, practical Roman was quite ready to tolerate the prostitute, but he was not prepared to carry that toleration to its logical results; he never felt bound to harmonize inconsistent facts of life.
Even in Venice, the paradise of prostitution, numerous and severe regulations were passed against it, and it was long before the Venetian rulers resigned themselves to its toleration and regulation.
Many probable arguments they have to prove the lawfulness, the necessity, and a toleration of them, as of usery; and without question in policy they are not to be contradicted, but altogether in religion.
No amount of argument could have been more effectual in supporting the claim for mutual tolerationthan those two speeches, and thenceforward such forms of criticism were conspicuous by their absence.
Indeed, it is to be noticed that, despite the strong antagonism of principle and deductions from principle which existed among the members, the rule of mutual toleration was well kept.
And where honesty of conviction was patent, mutual toleration was often replaced by personal esteem and regard.
We find here a delicate conscientiousness as to the relations to be cultivated with one's fellow-men; the widest toleration is enjoined, a toleration extending to all beings, to all opinions.
The king seems to have acted pretty fairly in this parliament, bating a gross falsehood in denying the intended toleration of papists.
It is urged in these, that no toleration should be granted to the popish worship in private houses.
Even in the delicate business of promising toleration to the catholics by the secret articles of the treaty with Spain, he gave satisfaction to the king (Hardwicke Papers, i.
Nor to mention Sir Thomas More's Utopia, the principle of toleration had been avowed by the Chancellor l'Hospital, and many others in France.
Archbishop Hutton wrote to Cecil, complaining of the toleration granted to papists, while the puritans were severely treated.
For the dispositions of Ferdinand and Maximilian towards religious toleration in Austria, which indeed for a time existed, see F.
If the gospel shall quail, and popery prevail, it will be imputed principally unto your great counsellors, who either procure or yield to grant toleration to some.
I mention him as on the stronger side; for in fact the weaker had always professed the general principle, and could demand toleration from those of different sentiments on no other plea.
But there are few, I trust, who can hesitate to admit that the puritan clergy, after being excluded from their benefices, might still claim from a just government a peaceful toleration of their particular worship.
This well exemplifies the broad toleration and liberality of the sect.
But it is idle to maintain that toleration for tender consciences involved a reconstitution of the Church to suit those consciences.
That would have meant, not toleration of, but surrender to, the divergent forces.
With regard to toleration, he had to take account of the fears of the nation, that such toleration was a device of Charles in favour of the Roman Catholics, and of the conviction that, as an act of the Crown alone, it was illegal.
If the principle of religious toleration is to be a universal guide, it is difficult to say why the maxims it enjoins should be held to apply only in the case of Presbyterians and Independents.
That secured to them only toleration for their scruples, not a revolution in the Church to suit their views.
The Roman Catholics recognized that their hopes of toleration from the King might be frustrated by Hyde's sturdy Protestantism.
In terms of the Declaration of Breda toleration was to be granted to all, and Hyde distinctly announced that it was the intention of the King to carry out that obligation to all.
All that they asked for seemed to be conceded; and perhaps, in the circumstances, they might have deigned to overlook the laxity which permitted toleration to those whose doctrines they held to be intolerable.
The King was ready to give toleration to tender consciences, but he claimed liberty also for himself.
But as they knew one another better they learned mutual toleration at least, if not respect.
But the Declaration was careful to add that no tightening of the most severe of the penal laws was to be construed as an intention of permitting equal toleration to all religions.
One of the causes of offence was that the Venetians favoured the principle of tolerationin religious beliefs, and permitted the heretical to worship according to their consciences.
In Amsterdam Spinoza formed at least a measure of tolerationamong the citizens.
Cruelties the most atrocious, acts of vengeance the most bloody, fratricide, parricide, all were viewed with more toleration than oblivion of his own inviolable sanctity.
In every age, a principle of toleration has been fortified by a sense of interest: and the revenue of the prince and his emir was increased each year, by the expense and tribute of so many thousand strangers.
To his Christian subjects, Mahomet readily granted the security of their persons, the freedom of their trade, the property of their goods, and the toleration of their worship.
The wars of the Moslems were sanctified by the prophet; but among the various precepts and examples of his life, the caliphs selected the lessons of toleration that might tend to disarm the resistance of the unbelievers.
A large majority of the people accepted the terms of toleration and tribute; and Damascus is still peopled by twenty thousand Christians.
The second of these assemblies was approved and rigorously executed by the despotism of Irene, and she refused her adversaries the toleration which at first she had granted to her friends.
Another class of subjects, the Syrians, or Oriental Christians, were oppressed by the zeal of the clergy, and protected by the toleration of the state.
This charge of ignorance and bigotry is refuted by the Koran, by the history of the Mussulman conquerors, and by their public and legal toleration of the Christian worship.
