In the case of the Duke, however, the affair wore a more serious aspect; and so earnest did he appear in his professions that Madame de Verneuil, anxious at once to secure an illustrious alliance and to revenge herself upon the monarch, caused the banns of marriage between the Prince and herself to be published with some slight alteration in their respective names, which did not, however, suffice to deceive those who had an interest in Subverting her project; and the fact was accordingly communicated to the King, upon whom it produced an effect entirely opposite to that which had been contemplated by the vanity of the lady, who had been clever enough to procure from M. de Guise a written promise similar to that which she had formerly extorted from the monarch.
"The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Julia Pardoe
Great bodies of armed men, trained to a contempt of popular assemblies representative of an English people,-kept up for the purpose of exacting impositions without their consent, and maintained by that exaction,-instruments in Subverting, without any process of law, great ancient establishments and respected forms of governments,-set free from, and therefore above, the ordinary English tribunals of the country where they serve,-these men cannot so transform themselves, merely by crossing the sea, as to behold with love and reverence, and submit with profound obedience to, the very same things in Great Britain which in America they had been taught to despise, and had been accustomed to awe and humble.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
They emphatically objected to the employment of reason for establishing a Christian doctrine or Subverting a statement of the Bible.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
