"Asserter" Quotes from Famous Books
... golden rule comes full and round from the mouth; nor do I deny that it is pure gold: but like too many other golden rules, in order to make it cover the facts which the orthodox asserter of episcopacy at least, and the chaplain of Archbishop Laud and King Charles the Martyr must have held himself bound to bring under it, it must be made to display another property of the sovereign metal, its malleableness to wit; and must be beaten ... — The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge |