"Englishmen like something to grumble about," said Mr. Walton. "If the Commonwealth leaves them without a grievance, it will doom itself."
"That is not it, Mr. Walton," said Henry Marten; "Englishmen don't like the foundations destroyed in order to repair the house. Going over precipices is not making progress. You may take it for an axiom that as a people, we prefer abuses to novelties."
"The reign of the saints is now begun," said Doctor Hewitt scornfully; "and Sir Harry Vane is afraid of what he has prayed for. He has gone into retirement, and sent Cromwell word he would wait for his place until he got to heaven."
"Sir Harry is not one of Zebedee's sons."
"This Parliament is going too fast."
"They have no precedents to hamper them."
"Everything old is in danger of being abolished."
"They talk of reducing all taxation to one assessment on land and property. Absurd!"
"Some say they will burn the records in the Tower; and the law of Moses is to take the place of the law of England."
"And the Jews are to have civil rights."