enjoinments

Updated: May 29, 2025

If King George the Third himself, with all his arbitrary notions, and willing religious acquiescence, could not endure the creed of St. Athanasius with its damnatory enjoinments of the impossible, what would have been said to the inscription over Dante's hell-gate, or the account of Ugolino eating an archbishop, in the gentle chapels of Queen Victoria?

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1