Mr. Krauthammer rather turns Benjamin Franklin's logic on its head with his paraphrasing, quite "impiously" indeed, as many of the very policies Mr. Krauthammer advocates with such alacrity (an unbridled executive, use of torture, preemptive war) run directly contra Franklin's admonition to fight the preserve a constitutional Republic. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But days later, the media spotlight swung impiously to Buckingham Palace as Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. ❋ Nathania Zevi (2011)
Unless, of course, the Rev Muslims would argue that humor of any kind directed at Islam or Mohammad is by its very nature too legere, impiously distracting, short on gravitas, tending to corrupt. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"It is impiously irritating the avenging hand of Heaven, when a people who are in the full enjoyment of freedom, launch out into the wide ocean of human affairs, and desert those maxims which alone can preserve liberty." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Why, Theseus, to thy sorrow dost thou rejoice at these tidings, seeing that thou hast slain thy son most impiously, listening to a charge not clearly proved, but falsely sworn to by thy wife? though clearly has the curse therefrom upon thee fallen. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Next do I bewail thy sorrows, O mother hapless in thy children, thou who wilt slay thy babes because thou hast a rival, the babes thy husband hath deserted impiously to join him to another bride. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Shaddád bin Ad and the City of Iram the Columned; but it relates chiefly to the building by the King of the First Adites who, being promised a future Paradise by Prophet Húd, impiously said that he would lay out one in this world. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He was condemned to share the fate of his fellow-officers upon that occasion, who were doomed to death rather by denunciations from the pulpit, than the sentence either of civil or military tribunal; their blood being considered as a sort of sin-offering to take away the guilt of the land, and the fate imposed upon the Canaanites, under a special dispensation, being impiously and cruelly applied to them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The like severity, no doubt, was used, if aught were impiously written against their esteemed gods. ❋ Unknown (2007)
God whose temple they have impiously fortified and now occupy will be our champion, and relying on the sacrifices, which are favourable to us, let us advance to meet them. ❋ Thucydides (2007)
The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And how great a difference there is between kindness and malice, between piety and impiety, between Christ kindly receiving the little children and the heretics impiously rejecting the children …. ❋ Unknown (2005)
And shall we say that those who guard our noblest interests, and are the best of guardians, are inferior in virtue to dogs, and to men even of moderate excellence, who would never betray justice for the sake of gifts which unjust men impiously offer them? ❋ Unknown (2006)
For the discourse will certainly extend to great length, if we are to treat the impiously disposed as they desire, partly demonstrating to them at some length the things of which they demand an explanation, partly making them afraid or dissatisfied, and then proceed to the requisite enactments. ❋ Unknown (2006)
With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There some weakly broke down; sobbed, submitted; others, inspired by Heaven knows what intemperate madness, called Sir William to his face a damnable humbug; questioned, even more impiously, life itself. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. ❋ Unknown (2003)
