"Assertor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the most strenuous assertor of ecclesiastical privileges, submits without a murmur to the payment of the land tax. "Si tri butum petit Imperator, non negamus; agri ecclesiae solvunt tributum solvimus quae sunt Caesaris Caesari, et quae sunt Dei Deo; tributum Caesaris est; non negatur." Baronius labors to interpret ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... is a good country gentleman, a great assertor of the prerogatives of the monarchy and the Church.—Swift. Of ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift |
