There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

Possibly related to | The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. | Junius, Letter xxxv (19 December 1769) | It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. | George Bancroft on Calvinism, in History of the United States (1834), Vol. III, Ch. vi. | Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King | Anonymous poem "The Puritans' Mistake", published by Oliver Ditson (1844).