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...experience in battle.” Judges 3:1-2 ( NLT) B eginning on January 1, 2006, my church began the Bible in 90 Days reading challenge. I’ve read through th... ...is a living promise. I write fantasy, psychological horror, science fiction, romance. All of these are genres which belong to the kingdoms of this wor... ...gelo, Vaughan, and even Shakespeare, all spoke unashamedly of God. Painting, sculpture, visual art, theatre, explored His virtues and praised His holy... ...are driving a message toward the green of a person’s heart. Some of us write romance. Some of us write humor while others present the truth through le... ...in folders and boxes believing they were not eloquent. I was amazed when our church published a book of my Advent devotionals for mothers in the 1970s... ...worthy. Oh, Paul has written some letters which he tells me are read by the churches he has started.” Love, Dad, John. My story, “My Best Friend,” wo... ...od of those who love him, who have been called according to his purposes.” Romans 8.28 (NIV) I n a cartoon, an aspiring author, holding his manuscri... ... Raul Escobar. He told the woman of the house in Argentina, “I…I think I’m a Catholic.” She replied, “That is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. You d... ...eorgia. Kate Dolan, after coming east from Chicago to attend college at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, grew 171 attached to t...

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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...has murdered, or exiled his political rivals throughout his career. He confiscated church funds and imposed onerous taxes on the populace. Conseque... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...thodox continued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of leap years ever... ...tion was initiated by blacks. The freedmen lobbied hard and long for separate black churches and educational facilities. Nor was lynching confined t... ...and "All Hallows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also ... ... it gave birth to him - and remained a virgin in perpetuity. This is the official (Catholic) doctrine. But Jesus had brothers and sisters - plent... ...10328.htm http://www.trosch.org/the/brothers.html http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/catholic.htm Jesus, Year of Birth Was Jesus born 2002 years ago?...

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...y little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do just as well as any other woman.” ‘Not a very romantic acceptance, Uncle, which is hardly surpris... ...d. Gavin is not exactly the ardent suitor. He is merely doing his duty by marrying me. Not a very romantic proposal.’ Rosita seemed suddenly anxious... ...married again. Gavin was the son of this second marriage. Helen, herself, had firmly quelled that romantic dream of her adolescence and plunged hers... ...is head in unruly curls. She suddenly thought of the head of Michelangelo’s David, the impressive sculpture she had so admired when she visited Aud... ... shawl around her shoulders. ‘Gavin has already gone out. He said not to keep him waiting at the church tomorrow and he has left this letter and gif... ...iful dress from the night before and she remembered that she would not see Gavin again until the church ceremony. Agnes Cameron had insisted, before... ...fference to the poor was feigned, because the beautiful Creole devoted a great deal of time to a Catholic orphanage on the outskirts of the city. ‘... ...ot wanting them around. You should respect his wishes, Helen,’ said a shocked Rosita, her strict Catholic upbringing unable to accept the hedonisti... ...sticism. To-morrow I will visit my friend, the Senora Hernandez, and ask her to let us borrow her Catholic chaplain, Father Carlos. He will exorcise...

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...- ing boat-hooks with ease and charm. They look to meet, under pleasant or romantic circumstances, other possessors and worshippers of grace and beaut... ...g can be curi- ously fatiguing; punting involves dreadful indignities. The romance here tarnishes very quickly. Romantic encounters fail to occur; in ... ...trait of the Artist as a Young Man.” “I’ve not read it.” “A picture of the Catholic atmosphere; a young soul shut up in darkness and ignorance to accu... ...y were great creatures. They came, it was clearly traceable, from pictures sculpture—and from a definite re- sponse in myself to their beauty. My moth... ...rained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t know what your pocket map of the universe is, the map... ...that, even as late as Tudor days, were almost complete. A whole village, a church, a pretty manor house have been built, for the most part, out of the... ...ith- out metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters, with- out any sculpture that has left a trace, and yet with a sense of astronomical fact ... ... you find you are?” 85 H G Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals.” “You feel all this country belongs to... ...ning it had been a cathedral city; it was essentially and purely that. The church at its best, in the full tide of its mediaeval ascen- dancy, had cal...

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...sire has been to give enough expression of Bishop Patteson’s opinions upon Church and State affairs, to repre- sent his manner of thinking, without tr... ... solid groundwork of religion, such as would now be called that of a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance... ... the round-hand of a boy of seven years old, and finished off with the big Roman capitals Finis, Amen, and ending with the uncompleted sheets, bearing... ...melike to Coley, for his grandparents lived at Heath’s Court, close to the church, and in the manor-house near at hand their third son, Francis George... ...general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law courts and expressions, and Greek and Roman writers. I d... ...ition of Rome at that time, and arrived at conclusions strongly adverse to Roman Catholicism as such, though he retained uninjured the Catholic tone o... ...of Rome at that time, and arrived at conclusions strongly adverse to Roman Catholicism as such, though he retained uninjured the Catholic tone of his ... ...that a sectarian char- acter, as of fixing him with party names. His was a catholic mind. What distinguished him was his open-mindedness, his essentia... ...Wesleyan chapel. On the rising ground on the east of the cove is the Roman Catholic chapel, and on 108 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the west side ...

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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ... whose presence still lingers in a fold of your heart. 9 Beatrix Near the church of Guerande stands a mansion which is to the town what the town is t... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... a stone dais like those that crown the statues of saints at the portal of churches. Can you not see a woman walking in the morning along this balcony... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ... dispossessed Elder branch. The future of the exiled Bourbons, that of the Catholic religion, the influence of political innovations on Brittany were ... ...u Guenics. In their salon he was as a chaplain in his seigneur’s house. In church, when he gave the benediction, his hand was always first stretched o... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ...pire, and behold the Grand Army when it came to the Champ de Mars, as to a Roman circus, to salute its Caesar before it went to its death at Waterloo....

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.... The only meetings among them are on Sundays and feast-days in the parish church. These silent assemblies, under the eye of the rector (the only rule... ...atly excited by this beginning of an affair which seemed to have an almost romantic interest, and they began to joke about it. But Hulot stopped them ... ...eard by the men, “it is just; haven’t the Blues seized the property of the Church, and our own?” Another murmur, very different from the growl with wh... ...ady, feeling a need of justification. “Why not, madame? In former days the Church approved of the confiscation of the property of Protestants, and the... ...sources, the poesy of ancient times revived in the midst of this weird and romantic nature, these armed and unarmed Chouans, cruel and praying, men ye... ...or yet imagined. She remembered admiring in her childhood the pomps of the Roman church so pleasing to the senses; but she knew nothing of God alone, ... ...known under his patronymic of Rifoel, was silent before the general of the Catholic armies. “What is all this about, gentlemen?” asked the marquis, ex... ...enterprise before I have time to make a faithful report to the king on the Catholic armies of Brit- tany. I charge you, in case you live to see the Re... ...ed out to them. The wife of Galope-Chopine turned pale as she heard the un-Catholic oath of the so-called Chouan. She looked at the gaiters and goatsk...

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...f an honest round game (wherein me fawther, as pious a man as ever went to church, me uncle Dane Malony, and our cousin the Bishop, took a hand at loo... ...is happy time there was novelty and amusement for all parties. There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The band... ...and collected as when she used to marshal Miss Pinkerton’s little girls to church. Num- bers of the men she knew already, and the dandies thronged rou... ...ur? Time out of mind strength and courage have been the theme of bards and romances; and from the story of Troy down to to-day, poetry has always chos... ... Missionary Register by his side, took that kind of recreation which suits romantic and unromantic men after din- ner. He sipped Madeira: built castle... ...ng very pleasantly out on the sea, and Jim, attracted to the window by the romantic appearance of the ocean and the heavens, thought he would further ... ...an urn, and a broken sword and a couchant lion indicated that the piece of sculpture had been erected in honour of a deceased warrior. The sculp- tors... ...es and towers and plantations of flowers and shrubs, under which the Roman Catholic dead repose. It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that ...

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...ee Blangy, the county-town, containing about sixty houses, and the village church, which is nothing more than a tumble-down building with a wooden clo... ... houses have disappeared in the valley of the Oise alone. We are getting a Roman campagna around Paris in advance of the days when a tem- pest shall b... ...naparte became First Consul, she increased her property by the purchase of church lands, for which she used the proceeds of her diamonds. As an Opera ... ...apa!” remarked his fair and fat daugh- ter, who bore some resemblance to a Roman matron. “You need a shirt, and a pair of clean trousers, and a hat; a... ...ached. They make it a law unto themselves not to listen to us; whereas the church does get some hold on the savages of America.” “M’sieur le cure, the... ... know the reputation of land-stewards; my father-in-law is a republican of Roman austerity, and a man of influence as well; I want to prove to him tha... ...uch better that I should have it, and so enable her to live in peace.” The Catholic religion, and it alone, is able to prevent these capitulations of ... ...es before the Revolution, was again a priest after the re-establishment of Catholic worship, and again the curate of the same little town. He was not ... ...ed as she listened to this grand utter- 172 Sons of the Soil ance of true catholic charity, the countess answered in the fatal words, “We will consid...

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... except on public buildings. At Arcis the chateau, the law courts, and the church are the only stone buildings. Nevertheless, Champagne, or, if you pr... ...several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its columns, all to whom chance has gi... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ... money.” “And,” continued Ernestine, “she has selected for the hero of her romance—” “Oh!” interrupted Madame Mollot, “an old man of fifty!— fie!” “Ho... ...the sacrifices and annoyances I have borne to be rid of him. I never go to church now except on Sundays; I often keep my dear children at home to the ... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ...y are intended.” “Ah ca!” exclaimed Emile Blondet, “and it is this fervent Catholic who fights a duel!” “Better or worse than that. This Catholic live...

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...re is more than the ordinary height above her, and who, now that her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing has worn off, and her fretful litt... ...nd the edu- cation of his son at Raynham. Adrian had been destined for the Church. He did not enter into Orders. He and the bar- onet had a conference... ... “She’s a lady, as good as the best of ‘em. I don’t care about their being Catholics—the Desb’roughs o’ Dorset are gentlemen. And she’s good for the p... ... handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than... ...he cry of long years of comfortable respectability. Mr. Th- ompson went to church regularly; paid his rates and dues without overmuch, or at least mor... ...ANDS have not yet rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there is romance, these monsters come by inimical attraction. Because the heavens ar... ...They’re all nature, I suppose,” said Adrian. “How is it I don’t see her at church?” “She’s Catholic, or some think,” said Molly. “Her father was, and ... ...re, I suppose,” said Adrian. “How is it I don’t see her at church?” “She’s Catholic, or some think,” said Molly. “Her father was, and a leftenant. She... ...ill you now? Do say you won’t now, Mr. Harley! She is good, though she’s a Catholic. She was kind to me when I was ill, and I wouldn’t have her crosse...

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... He does. But in him it is not combined with an indigestion of high German romances. Here is so notable a difference, that he cannot possibly be said ... ...ely less powerful. This was a different song from the last: it was not the sculptured music of the old school, but had the richness and fulness of pas... ...e interrogator: “Oh, because—do you know, we have very select music at our church?” “We have a highly-paid organist,” added Arabella. “Recently electe... ...ed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on their return in one of the green bowery lanes leading up to... ...t.” “The singer! where?” asked his sisters, with one voice. “Coming out of church.” “She goes to church, then!” This exclamation showed the heathen th... ... scious of it. They leaped at one bound to the conclusion that there was a romance attached to him. Do not be startled. An attested tail-coat, clearly... ...not ridiculous. Dr. Watts would have put a girdle about her; but a song of romance sung in this atmosphere of pipes and beer and boozy heads, chagrine... ...now, my feeling is, and I cannot at all account for it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion... ...ister. She said pointedly once: “Really, if we are to be miserable, I turn Catholic and go into a convent.” The strange thing was that Arabella imagin...

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...mised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics say) or completely (as the Protestants say) corrupted by origin... ...ovie, says to Ben-Hur: “You have Messala inside yourself”. Messala is the Roman horseman dressed in black. We have to look at life not as a race ag... ...aken over their consciences. Who was damned and who was chosen? Was it the Church of Rome who decided, or did each person decide for themselves? Lut... ... experiences. I was raised for more than thirty years in a religion, the Catholic religion, that preached love and terror at the same time. The l... ...was not the master of his own life, because God, my mother, the State, the Church etc., are the masters of my life and I am just a tool in their han... ...y invent their gods, they also created immortal masterpieces of beauty, in sculpture, architecture and poetry. The Greek gods symbolically represent... ...e created. Life as a work of art is not intended here like Neitzsche or the Romantics intended it. It is the creation of a unified and unifying field...

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...When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship wi... ...se; but all partners of the past seemed to him to have wanted only to cast a romantic aura around him as if scared to see the real person inside, and ... ...its own cell divisions. Secondly, this cynicism that a woman, spellbound in romance, robbed a man of his sperm to produce a baby by which to devote h... ...t dressed. She turned on the television but realizing it was Sunday and that church programming had usurped her exorcise regimen she felt disappointed... ... fenced in nice. You know that. You will be happy there. The house is near a Catholic school. You will go there each day with those monkeys of hers. M... ...to not go that far. She drove on and on and soon she could see the roof of a church. In an hour, she thought, there would be the culmination of activi... ...ause one to be as steady and seemingly everlasting as those very walls. The church would shelter the convictions of the myth reinforcers who actively... ...hurch?" Gabriele thought of the Wicca services. They always reminded her of Catholic masses but without the Eucharist. However, they tapped into a m... ...he walls any more than usual." Following the service the boys were sent to a Catholic version of Sunday school and she was paraded in front of a bunch...

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... Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoo...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One CHAP... ... rudely up with ancient brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and supported by t... ... wandered by torchlight through a sort of dream, in which reminiscences of church aisles and grimy cellars—and chiefly the latter— seemed to be broken... ... tokens of a regular architectural design. Nev- ertheless, considered as a church, it was exceedingly minute, being scarcely twice a man’s stature in ... ...oves and the angels for your nearest neighbors. I should not wonder if the Catholics were to make a saint of you, like your namesake of old; especiall... ...o had come joyfully for- ward to greet her friend. “You must not call me a Catholic. A Christian girl—even a daughter of the Puritans—may surely pay h... ...or me a religious significance,” replied Hilda qui- etly, “and yet I am no Catholic.” They parted, and Kenyon made haste along the Via Sistina, in the...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts,...

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...HE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CÆSARS THE CONDITION of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been suffic... ...s not been repeated; neither has Cæsar. Ubi Cæsar, ibi Roma—was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence. And the same maxim may be translated into a wider mean... ...4 The Cæsars ished and expired together. The illimitable attributes of the Roman prince, boundless and comprehensive as the univer- sal air,—like that... ...nctities of the next world. Thus, for instance, the Pope, as the father of Catholic Christendom, could not but be viewed with awe by any Christian of ... ...—which had a high value as works of art, even in the Aurea Domus, from the sculptures which adorned them. He now prepared for flight; and, sending for... ...etween this pagan supersti- tion and the adoration of saints in the Romish church, as at first sight appears. The fault is purely in the names: divus ...

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...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ...each the cathedral. 10 A Little Tour in France II. IT IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL CHURCH of the second order of impor- tance, with a charming mouse-colored c... ... it is really a lesson in good taste. Originally placed in the great abbey-church of Saint Martin, which was for so many ages the holy place of Tours,... ...ses was planted in the spinster’s gar- den. If you wander round behind the church, in search of this more than historic habitation, you will have occa... ... attain solemnity; for the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. The Catholic church, as churches go to-day, is certainly the most spec- tacular... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ...brick is pointed out to you by your cabman (if you happen to drive) as the romantic abode of a superstitious king, and where a strong odor of pig- sti... ...y manners which (for whatever other teachings it may be respon- sible) the Catholic church so often instils into its func- tionaries. I have never see... ...ry to Gaul, dates from the third century. They have been dealt with as the Catholic church deals with most of such places to-day; polished and furnish...

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...tunate. Archdeacon Hare, both by natural tendency and by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical her... ...character and writ- ings, which had little business to be spoken of in any Church-court, have hereby been carried thither as if for an exclusive trial... ...les, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848. 5 Thomas Carlyle Church. But he was a man, and had relation to the Uni- verse, for eight-and... ...nces of mere costume and dialect still divide him, what- soever is worthy, catholic and perennial in him, from a brother soul who, more than most in h... ...tters of Vetus treated of I do not know; doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for... ...s further, That of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and hab... ...t of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic) in its tendencies and habitudes; and th... ...ch of Sterling’s and ours. A world all rocking and plunging, like that old Roman one when the measure of its iniquities was full; the abysses, and sub... ...in camps and coun- cil-rooms, in presence-chambers and in prisons. He knew romantic Spain;—he was himself, standing withal in the vanguard of Freedom’...

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...hina. It ‘s all very well, but I have a distinct prevision of this—that if Roman life does n’t do something substantial to make you happier, it increa... ...ros which are the traditional property of the Vir- ginian or Carolinian of romance. When this was on, he was very picturesque, in spite of his mock el... ...s Rowland at the garden gate was giving his hostess Godspeed on her way to church, he came striding along the grassy margin of the road and out-whistl... ...ing along the grassy margin of the road and out-whistling the music of the church bells. It was one of those lovely days of August when you feel the c... ...tion. Miss Garland looked up, and, after a moment’s hesita- tion: “Are the Roman women very beautiful?” she asked. Rowland too, in answering, hesitate... ...and wisely of everything.” “Stay a bit!” cried Roderick; “you ‘re a better Catholic than the Pope. I shall be content if she judges fairly of me—of my... ...wland felt the need for intellectual rest, for a truce to present care for churches, statues, and pictures, on even better grounds than his companion,... ...are very artistic and yet you are very prosaic; you have what is called a ‘catholic’ taste and yet you are full of obstinate little prejudices and hab... ...!” “Have you never felt in any degree,” Rowland asked, “the fascination of Catholicism?” “Yes, I have been through that, too! There was a time 180 Ro...

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...res to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element... ...nd, a black Angel of Doom was beat ing a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the preacher’s text was about the blackness of darkness, and th... ... not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets when folks is goin’ to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin’... ...ill reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as on... ...ood Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presby terian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his p... ...es of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural for... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg h... ...ial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on t... ...nable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via the Cape of...