 | William Chadwick - Biography - 1859 - 514 pages
...tyranny of a governmental bondage. At this time (1702) De Foe brought out his pamphlet entitled the Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Chureh. This pamphlet was framed on the model of Sacheverell, Leslie, and others ; and was, no doubt,... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...Alte T, p. 114. While this bill was depending, Daniel De Foc pub4E lished a pamphlet, intituled, " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Chureh." The piece was a severe satire on the violence of the chureh party. The commons ordered it... | |
 | John Leaf - 1861 - 500 pages
...would in some sort frustrate their intolerant designs. With this view he produced and published, " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. London, 1702," — a work which apparently recommended the infliction of the harshest pains and penalties... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...that it was a most keen and bitter satire upon their pnnciples. The pamphlet was entitled, • The Shortest way with the Dissenters, or proposals for the Establishment of the Church.' When the true bearing of the work was discovered, the house ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman,... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1864 - 708 pages
...of the public • While this bill was depending, Daniel de Foe published a pamphlet, entitled " The shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church." The piece was a severe satire on the violence of the church party. The Commons onJernl it to be burned... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - Bibliography, National - 1864 - 872 pages
...of Tracts. There is another tract with same title, pub, 1687, often confounded with De Foe's. H The shortest Way with the Dissenters: or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. Lnnd. 1702, 4to. A very powerful piece of irony. (In the 25th <.f February, 1702-3, the House of Commons... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, William Lee (inspector, gen. board of health) - 1869 - 594 pages
...language, for the purpose of exposing their folly. The result was published, under the title of " The Shortest Way with the Dissenters : or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. London. Printed in the year 1702." To understand the inimitable irony of this production, it must be... | |
 | 1869 - 330 pages
...celebrated works are : — " The True-born Englishman," a satire in vigorous verse, published in 1701; "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church," a lively and powerful ironical defence of Nonconformity, which the House of Commons, in February 1702-3,... | |
 | 1870 - 976 pages
...insanity which was lurking in his blood. But a more exact parallel might be found in Defoe's " Short Way with the Dissenters, or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church," in which, assuming the character of an Ultra-High-Chnrchman, (ought we to class Mr. Smith in the category... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...carrying to its full conclusions, the principle opposed to toleration, wrote this famous tract : — THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS: or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. Sir Roger L'Estrange tells us a story, in his collection of fables, of the cock and the horses.' The... | |
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The shortest Way with the Dissenters ; or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church. 
