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" To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good... "
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 250
1839
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The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal ...

William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1876 - 538 pages
...charge he left, I believe, to the world good and satisfactory tokens. The eminency woman," says Knox, " to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire, above...revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, it is a subversion of all equity and justice. The gist of his argument is, I. that women are intended for...
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The Creeds of Christendom: The history of creeds

Philipp Schaff - Creeds - 1877 - 976 pages
...Guise. This singular and characteristic but unfortunnte book begins with the sentence, ' To promote n woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire,...or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, n thing most contrnrinns to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, it is n subversion...
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The Creeds of Christendom: The history of creeds

Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 968 pages
...and characteristic but unfortunate book begins with tl.e sentence, ' To promote a woman to bear rale, n thing most contrarious to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, it is a subversion...
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The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558

John Knox - Queens - 1878 - 96 pages
...in that behalf 6 The First Blast to awake Women degenerate ... 1 1 THE DECLAMATION. The Proposition. To promote a Woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation or city is A. Repugnant to nature. B. Contumely to GOD. C. The subversion of good order, of all equity and justice....
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The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works, Volumes 1-8

1878 - 774 pages
...that behalf 6 The First Blast to awake Women degenerate ... 1 1 THE DECLAMATION. The Proporitiert. To promote a Woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation or city is A. Repugnant to nature. B. Contumely to GOD. C. The subversion of good order, of all equity and justice...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...such preface he began his book, a small quarto, about as big as a man's hand, with the assertion that "to promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice." Women are not worthy to rule. " I exempt," said Knox, " such...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 706 pages
...a small quarto, about as big as a man's hand, with the assertion that " to promote a woman to beat rule, superiority, dominion, or empire, above any...approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of al] equity and justice." Women are not worthy to rule. "I exempt," said Knox, " such...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 708 pages
...such preface he began his book, a small quarto, about as big as a man's hand, with the assertion that "to promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...most contrarious to his revealed will and approved o.-dinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice." Women are not...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...about as big as a man's hand, with the assertion that "to promote a woman to bear rule, superioritj-, dominion, or empire, above any realm, nation, or city,...approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice." Women are not worthy to rule. "I exempt," said Knox, " such...
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The Church Under Queen Elizabeth: An Historical Sketch, Volume 1

Frederick George Lee - Great Britain - 1880 - 400 pages
...Mary Tudor, directly at Mary Stuart, maintaining that the rule of a woman was " repugnant to nature, a contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed Will and approved ordinances, and finally the subversion of all equity and justice." Elizabeth, of course, knew of this...
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