 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...balanee with the devil. Byron. A quiet eonseienee makes one so serene ! Christians have burnt eaeh other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did. Byron. The mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the seorpion girt by fire, In eirele narrowing... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...was good, her breast was peaceable — A quiet conscience makes one BO serene ! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles...done as they did. LXXXIV. And if in the mean time her husband died, 84 But heaven forhid that such a thought should cross Her brain, though in a dream 1... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...implant an idea. In the good old times, so lauded by our latest historians, when Christians " Burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did ;" such unfortunates would have suffered a very painful death. Now, since they may not be brought to... | |
 | 1859 - 914 pages
...that when creeds are no longer in dispute, the world must be more quiet than when Christians " burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did." Doctrines lose their importance when death ceases to be the penalty for holding them. The most uncompromising... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1861 - 432 pages
...Founder of Christianity, his followers have imitated the devotees of more blood-thirsty creeds, and Burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did. The physical annihilation of an opponent was so much more simple an operation than his intellectual... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...pronounce sentence of extreme condemnation on all who may be personally obnoxious. " Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did !" It is not easy to understand how Dr William Anderson, with these fierce passions of hatred towards... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 pages
...was good, her breast was peaceable : A quiet conscience makes one so serene ! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. LXXXIV. And if in the meantime her husband died, But Heaven forbid that such a thought should cross Her brain, though in... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...intellectual ! Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all ? Canto i. Stanza 22. Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. Canto i. Stanza 83. Whispering " I will ne'er consent," consented. Canto i. Stanza 117. 'T is sweet... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...graceless zealots fight ; He can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. Pope EM Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. Byron, Don Juan, I. 83. Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind,... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pages
...LUCR. — Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions. " Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did." BYRON. See " Tantum religio." Rem acu tetigisti. — You have hit the point exactly. " You have hit... | |
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. 
