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"Sire, a million would be quite sufficient." "That is very little." "Offered to a single man it is a great deal. Convictions have been purchased at a much lower price; and I should have nothing to do but with venalities." "Two hundred gentlemen! Reflect! that is little more than a single company."
"Sire, a million would be quite sufficient." "That is very little." "Offered to a single man it is a great deal. Convictions have been purchased at a much lower price; and I should have nothing to do but with venalities." "Two hundred gentlemen! Reflect! that is little more than a single company."
If the King had been restored, all the fruit of the revolution would have been lost; there would have been a renewed reign of frivolities, insincerities, court scandals, venalities, favorites, and disguised Romanism, yea, an alliance would have been formed with the old tyrants of Europe.
We shall not go into the details of the venalities charged against Tetzel, whose field of labor was in Saxony, but they seem to have been sufficient to cause a strong feeling of dissatisfaction, which at length found a voice in Martin Luther, who preached vigorously against Tetzel and his methods and wrote to the princes and bishops begging them to refuse this irreligious dealer in indulgences a passage through their dominions.
It is interesting for its triumphs of genius, its dispersion of the shadows of the Middle Ages, the commencement of great enterprises and of a marked refinement of manners and tastes; it is hideous for its venalities, its murders, its debaucheries, its unblushing wickedness, and its disgraceful levities, when God and duty and self-restraint were alike ignored.
My own Irish eighteenth-centuryism made it impossible for me to believe anything until I could conceive it as a scientific hypothesis, even though the abominations, quackeries, impostures, venalities, credulities, and delusions of the camp followers of science, and the brazen lies and priestly pretensions of the pseudo-scientific cure-mongers, all sedulously inculcated by modern 'secondary education, were so monstrous that I was sometimes forced to make a verbal distinction between science and knowledge lest I should mislead my readers.
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