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His mighty belly heaved and his cheeks swelled with the spiritual inflations of church power. He fixed his open eyes upon me and surveyed me from top to toe. I too made my remarks. 'He is a true son of the church, said I. The libertine sarcasm was instantly repelled, and my train of ideas was purified from such irreverend heresy 'He is an orthodox divine! A pillar of truth!
"Wert thou the owner of this good freight friend, thou might find its presence less uncomfortable than thou now appearest to think," returned the literal peasant, who had no humour for raillery, and to whom a jest on the subject of property had that sort of irreverend character that popular opinion and holy sayings have attached to waste.
"I suspect you have been in the library, Francis," said I; "you have opened books as well as bottles." "Aye, sir, and the book of all books," replied he seriously; "but I hope I am not irreverend when I say that God may lead us to understand the first image in Eden by showing us sometimes something better here than what we can feel within our own hearts."
How he would chuckle to behold globes and seas, and empires, fall into such irreverend antics because some poor earthling, be he kingling or common sodling, goes into desuetude, either by the operation of natural laws, or the sharp application of steel or shot! Verily, it makes precious little difference to the Great Reaper, by what process we finally become harvested.
"'A truce to thy irreverend sophistries, said I, 'and say what company is this a coming. 'Bohemians, cried he, 'Ay, ay, this shall be the rest of the band. With that came along so motley a crew as never your eyes beheld, dear Margaret.
Enter the King, Cleontius, and Attendants. King. My Love, Alcippus, is despis'd I see, And you in lieu of that return you owe me, Endeavour to destroy me. Is this an Object for your Rage to work on? Behold him well, Alcippus, 'tis your Prince. Who dares gaze on him with irreverend Eyes?
In this last sense, such a rule of conduct might, and in old times often would, have justified idolatry; nay, it is a species of idolatry in itself, since it is putting country before God. Sailors may not always be able to make the just distinctions in these cases, but the quarter-deck should be so, irreverend and dear sir."
You will leave out some word or letter in your answer, and the ignorance of the cathedral clergy will be harped upon; you will make some small mistake, which will be a falsehood, or some admission, which will be self-condemnation; you will find yourself to have been vulgar, ill-tempered, irreverend, and illiterate, and the chances are ten to one, but that being a clergyman, you will have been guilty of blasphemy!
"To me, individually, she was the one sole friend that ever I could regard as entirely fulfilling the offices of an honest friendship. She had known me from infancy; when I was in my first year of life, she, an orphan and a great heiress, was in her tenth or eleventh." "What Simon? Simon Peter?" O, no, you irreverend boy, no Simon at all with an S, but Cymon with a C, Dryden's Cymon,
The horror of domestic service, which the reality of slavery, and the fable of equality, have generated, excludes the young women from that sure and most comfortable resource of decent English girls; and the consequence is, that with a most irreverend freedom of manner to the parents, the daughters are, to the full extent of the word, domestic slaves.
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