Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

_Sir Thomas More_.--Enlarged as our faculties are, you must not suppose that we partake of prescience. For human actions are free, and we exist in time. The future is to us ther...

_Sir Thomas More_.--If wisdom were to be found in the multitude of books, what a progress must this nation have made in it since my head was cut off! A man in my days might offe...

In this school it is that most writers are now trained; and after such training anything like an easy and natural movement is as little to be looked for in their compositions as...

_Sir Thomas More_.--Their power of palliating it was not great, for the expenditure of those establishments kept a just pace with their revenues. They accumulated no treasures,...

_Sir Thomas More_.--The consolation is upon your principle of expectant hope. Whenever improved morals, wiser habits, more practical religion, and more efficient institutions sh...

Inclination would lead me to hibernate during half the year in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain, where few men who have tasted the enjoyments of a better would willin...

It was in 1824 that Robert Southey, then fifty years old, published "Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society," a book in two octavo volumes with...

_Sir Thomas More_.--Look at the populace of London, and ask yourself what security there is that the same blind fury which broke out in your childhood against the Roman Catholic...

_Montesinos_.--The eye, then, Sir Thomas, is proditorious, and I will not gainsay its honest testimony: yet would I rather endeavour to profit by the reprehension than seek to s...

Yet, in conformity to those principles alone, it is that subjects can find their perfect welfare, and States their full security. Christianity may be long in obtaining the victo...