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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
of suins. In German in Walch's Luther's Werke, XV 757, et seq. All absolute power brings its holders, first or last, to perdition: absolute power over mind, conquered from the emperor and continued for centuries, at last ruined, and could not but ruin, the moral and in- Chap. II.} tellectual faculties of the functionary by whom it was exercised. The earth, wrapt in thickest darkness, sighed for the dawn. The son of a miner, of the peasant class in Eisleben, trained in the school of Paul of Tarsus and the African Augustine, kindled a light for the world. He taught that no man impersonates the authority of God; that the pope is right in denying the divinity of the emperor, but that he blasphemes in arrogating divinity to himself. No power over souls belongs to a priest; any Christian, be it a woman or a child, can remit sins just as well as a priest; Dorner, Geschichte der protestantischen Theologie, 170. clergy and laity, all are of one condition; all men are equally pri
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 12: (search)
, Harris rushed to Potemkin for consolation. What can have operated so singular 1780. a revolution? demanded he, with eagerness and anxiety. Potemkin replied: You have chosen an unlucky moment. The new favorite lies dangerously sick. The empress is absorbed in this one passion. She repugns every exertion. Count Panin times his counsels with address; my influence is at an end. Harris fell ill. Everybody knew that Panin and Osterman of the foreign office, and the grand duke, afterwards Paul the Third, were discontented with his intrigues; and Catharine herself, meeting Goertz, asked playfully: What can have given Sir James Harris the jaundice? Has anything happened to vex him? And is he so choleric? Goertz to Frederic, 7 Jan., 1780. Unremitted attention was all the while given to the defence of neutral rights; and the Russian 1779. envoy at London, no less than the envoys of Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Prussia, delivered a memorial to the British government.