Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thi...eves!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in t...he Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I looked into a liturgy of the Church of England, printed near the end of the last century, in order to find a service applic...able to the case of Brown, I found that the only martyr recognized and provided for by it was King Charles the First, an eminent scamp. Of all the inhabitants of England and of the world, he was the only one, according to this authority, whom that church had made a martyr and saint of; and for more than a century it had celebrated his martyrdom, so called, by an annual service. What a satire on the Church is that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matter ...of faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it is true that rock stars weather into institutions, then Dylan has started now to resemble the Church of England: the dwindli...ng popularity of his product cannot diminish the intensity of the arguments among his congregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs? She was paradigmatic of those fat, gigantic women in Londo...n, all bum and elbow, who wear itchy tentlike coats, carry absurd bags of oranges, and usually wheeze down beside you on the bus, smelling of shilling perfume and cold air. She wore "sensible" shoes, had one bad foot, smoked too much, and cultivated a look as if she were always about to say no. In all, she was a woman with the carriage and studied irascibility of a middle-aged prebendary in the Church of England, executrix of self-reliance, lawgiver, Diocletian reborn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm! ... The Churc...h of England in a nutshell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating b...ulwark of the island.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »