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In Harrison's day the abstemious Welsh had learned to eat like the English, and the Scotch exceeded the latter in "over much and distemperate gormandize." The English eat all they can buy, there being no restraint of any meat for religion's sake or for public order.
Iosefo drew a fancy picture of Judas hanging himself, and brought it up to date with Old Dibs, and what a scaly thing it was to do anyway. He let himself rip in all directions, even to the persecutions in what he called the White Country, which he said Old Dibs had endured for religion's sake, and how he had been thrown to the lions in the Colossium.
"I want to spell things out for myself." "What do you know about him?" Freddy said. "I thought you hadn't begun reading yet? Has Mike been preaching his religion? Mike's dotty on Akhnaton his religion's all right, but as a king he was an ass." "No, no, Mike hasn't told me anything about him and I really would rather come to him in his proper place in history.
And his defence must have been the justa causa, viz. either that he might in charity or for religion's sake save a priest, or again that the judge had no right to interrogate him on the subject. Secondly, But, if I allow of silence, why not of the method of material lying, since half of a truth is often a lie?
The duke received him and his petition cordially, professing himself opposed to persecution for religion's sake, and promising to use his influence with the king.
I heard Darrell take up the story and tell what he knew and it was as much as I knew of Jonah Wall, and what he knew of Phineas Tate also. "It is a devilish plot," said the King, who was still greatly shaken and perturbed. Then Phineas spoke loudly, boldly, and with a voice full of the rapturous fanaticism which drowned conscience and usurped in him religion's place.
Few of them would have come as individuals; but they came as families and groups of families from the same community, yielding to the call of a favorite minister or trusted neighbor. And few would have come for religion's sake alone. Persecution was the efficient cause, but straitened circumstances frequently gave point to the pricks of conscience.
Why, I discovered them springs myself two years ago, before I went South, and I guess God wasn't helping me any not after I've kept out of His way as I have. But, anyhow, religion's real; that's my sense of it; and you can get it, I bet, if you try. I've seen it got. A friend of mine got it got it under your preaching; not from you; but you was the accident that brought it about, I expect.
"'Twont do, Squire," said he; "religion's all very well in its place, but when a man loses the sale of a dozen eggs, profit seven cents, because his partner is talking religion with him so hard that a customer gets tired of waiting and goes somewhere else, then religion's out of place." "The human soul's of more cons'kence than many eggs, Joseph," argued the Squire.
I don't know whether the religion's any better or not. You know I went up to my daughter Mary Frances' last week, and the folks up there was havin' a big meetin' in the Tabernicle, and that's how come me to be thinkin' about organs. "The preacher was an evangelist, as they call him, Sam Joynes, from 'way down South. In my day he'd 'a' been called the Rev. Samuel Joynes.
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