It is his fault, not mine, that he writes "Thus beneath the bearded Jesus is the flesh of Christina," and "It was a lesson in pessimism to complement her memory of the mouse," and "Eventually Maria extricated herself from papistic Longleat," plus a thousand more sentences of the kind. ❋ Weintraub, Stanley (1978)
And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious Moretons, drew him constantly to this spot at times when no one would be about. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Henkel to the rank of catechist, on the false charge that he had preached transubstantiation and other papistic heresies and thereby given offense to the "Reformed brethren." ❋ Unknown (1894)
For Ziska, stout and furious, blind of one eye and at last of both, a kind of human rhinoceros driven mad, had risen out of the ashes of murdered Huss, and other bad papistic doings, in the interim; and was tearing up the world at a huge rate. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Looking at the strange inscriptions in an unfamiliar tongue, he was singularly touched with the few cheap memorials lying upon the graves -- like childish toys -- and for the moment overlooked the papistic emblems that accompanied them. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Buddhism corrupted by Brahmic theocracy -- as Christianity by Mosaic rites, by papistic theology and sectarian piety -- has come to us as a morbid asceticism or worse, delighting in self-inflicted individual tortures and revelling in unthinkable contradictions. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. ❋ Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller (1782)
The _Formula_ adds: "For especially in these last times it is no less, needful to admonish men to Christian discipline and good works, and remind them how necessary it is that they exercise themselves in good works as a declaration of their faith and gratitude to God, than that works be not mingled in the article of justification; because men may be damned by an Epicurean delusion concerning faith, as well as by papistic and Pharisaical confidence in their own works and merits." ❋ Unknown (1894)
And here all God-fearing men say that it is a detrimental, offensive, damnable, papistic appendix. " ❋ Unknown (1894)
Musculus meant when he reported in 1536 that in Wittenberg services were conducted predominantly in papistic fashion, _ad morem papisticum_). ❋ Unknown (1894)
