Thomas Erskine of Linlathenwas a Scottish advocate and lay theologian in the early part of the 19th century. With his friend the Reverend John McLeod Campbell he attempted a revision of Calvinism... (wikipedia)
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.
Let him who plays the monarch be a king; Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure
The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout