 | Scotland Church of - 1855 - 392 pages
...semblance of truth to their errors, and, if possible, to deceive the unwary. In Religion What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text?" And with brazen face and trumpet-tongue these charlatans proclaim their system to the world as the... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - History - 1987 - 282 pages
...corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Religion - 1993 - 268 pages
...goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other... | |
 | Naomi Conn Liebler - Communities in literature - 1995 - 279 pages
...corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - History - 1995 - 1402 pages
...tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough to frighten the peyotists, who organized formally as the Native American Church... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...corrupt, But, being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned e, be strong and prosperous In this resolve: I'll send a friar with s Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - God - 1997 - 66 pages
...verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished... | |
 | Quentin Skinner - 1999 - 648 pages
...what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on... | |
 | Lloyd Graham - Religion - 1991 - 496 pages
...the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 492 pages
...Obscures the show of Reason. In Religion What dam'd Error, but some sober brow Will bless it, arid approve it with a Text; There is no Vice so artless, but assumes Some Mark of Vertue on its outward Parts Hiding the Crossness with fair Ornament. How many Cowards with Livers white... | |
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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text... 
