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The presidente and other officials were standing by the padre, and all were drinking at frequent intervals. Thinking the moment opportune, I approached the party and handed them my documents; but both presidente and priest were far too drunk to realize my needs.
Episcopalians look down upon the Methodists, and the latter denounce the former because the priests sometimes smoke and drink. The Unitarians are not regarded well by the others, yet nearly all the other bodies contain Unitarians, who for business and other reasons do not acknowledge the fact. A certain clergyman would not admit a Catholic priest to his platform. All combine against the poor Jew.
"My poor boy, it may cost you your life." "Very well," said Claude; "let it go. I'd rather not live, if I can't have Mimi." The priest looked at him sadly and solemnly. "My poor boy," said he, "has it gone so far as that with you?" "As far as that yes," said Claude, "and farther. Recollect I saved her life.
The priest who to the temporal powers preaches discord and war, instead of peace, abuses his character." The orders were precise, and admitted of no hesitation. The confiscation of the papal states had been responded to by the papal bull; open war had broken out between Pius VII., and the Emperor Napoleon.
From his tenderest years the younger prince was remarkable for his personal beauty and his bright intelligence, and before his thirteenth birthday had already learned all that his several masters could teach him. From an old priest, named P'hra Naitt, I gathered many pleasant anecdotes of his childhood.
You can't work in the fields with that garb you are wearing. You've got to buy these. Six marks! Hurry up! You've got to put them on!" The priest, who did not understand a word of German, naturally failed to grasp the meaning of the command. He promptly received a clout to knock some sense into him, the soldier meanwhile shaking the prison-like suit to emphasise what he meant.
Next, the trial itself had been full of interest. A Papist priest was, of course, fair game. He had flatly refused to be caught, though the questions were swift and subtle enough to catch any clerk.
To her every young and pretty woman is a rival to her daughters; if a rival, an enemy if an enemy, to be annihilated if possible, or at least disabled, and driven ignominiously from the field. It is well known that the Boccarini girls are poor. They will have no portions every one understands that. The Boccarini girls must marry as they can; no priest will interest himself in their espousals.
"That of the Vicar of Wakefield good, quiet, Church of England which would live and let live, practises charity, and rails at no one; where the priest is the husband of one wife, takes care of his family and his parish such is the religion for me, though I confess I have hitherto thought too little of religious matters.
"Ramses! the fates of the kingdom are weighed, and before another full moon comes Thou wilt be its ruler." "O gods!" cried the terrified prince. "Is my father so sick, then?" He fell on his face in the sand; then an assisting priest inquired if he did not wish to learn something more. "Tell me, Father Amon, whether my plans will be accomplished." After a while a voice spoke in the chapel.
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