As I have seldom heard of any sect, except the Friends, who did not challenge as much authority as it could possibly get over persons not associated with it, this would amount to a universal proscription of religion; but Locke's principle might at any rate be invoked against Ultra-montanism in some circumstances.

The consul Cinna, deposed by the senate, calls Marius from Africa, raises an Italian army, and reinstates himself in office; bloody proscriptions by Marius and Cinna follow.

Let us discriminate, and be shy of absolute proscription.

There will be wholesale proscriptions.

After a preface of boast, and a letter of flattery, in which he seems to imitate the address of Horace, in his "vile potabis modicis Sabinum"he opens his book with telling us, that the "Roman republic, after the horrible proscription, was no more at bleeding Rome.

It was his good taste in poetry that got him pardoned his iniquitous proscription.

He was a vehement High Churchman, and looked upon the existing penal proscription under which the Catholics lay as not merely desirable, but indispensable.

Douglass resented proscription wherever met with, and resisted it with force when the odds were not too overwhelming.

Still, these sweeping proscriptions of entire classes were not yet to the taste of the nation.

Thy tyrrannous proscription, and fresh treason: And not so see thy self, as to fall down And sinking, force a grave, with thine own guilt, As deep as hell, to cover thee and it? Wol.

Finally I rushed out and brought in my old axe-handle, and we set upon it like true artists, with critical proscription for being a trivial product of machinery.

Excepting in the case of capital offendersexpressions ancestrally vulgar or irreclaimably degenerateabsolute proscription is possible as to serious composition only; in other forms the writer must rely on his sense of values and the fitness of things.

But nothing could shake their faith; neither the proclamations of Elizabeth and James, the massacres of Cromwell, nor the ferocious proscriptions of the eighteenth century.