Just as inoculation for small-pox had been denounced from the pulpit and in medical treatises as a "diabolical operation" and a wicked interference with the designs of Providence, so did a certain Dr.
What fury do you suppose wicked enough to form so diabolical a plan!
I suspect she dreaded I was not so scrupulous as she, on the score of scandal, which made her invent this diabolical stratagem.
The strength of Luther’s delusion that the Pope was Antichrist and shared the diabolical nature furnishes the chief explanation of the hopelessly bitter way in which he deals with all those who ventured to defend the Papacy.
The first to relate anything concerning Luther’s diabolical parentage was, according to N.
This theological, anti-diabolical motive for his anger and boundless invective, throws all others into the shade.
He never tired of filling the imagination of the reader withdiabolical images (vol.
The statements regarding Luther’s eyes made by various persons who knew him would appear to have furnished many with a ground for thinking him under some diabolical spell.
The Popes “poisoned several Emperors, beheaded or otherwise betrayed others and put them to death, as became the diabolical spectre of the Papacy.
All this was crowned by the diabolical manifestations which he himself experienced, though what he took for apparitions of the devil was merely the outcome of an overwrought mind.
Although at first somewhat staggered, five minutes had not passed before I felt thoroughly satisfied that Travers was the victim of some diabolical plot; and I pretty well guessed of whose concoction.
Every act in thediabolical drama was conceived with astuteness, and enacted with a precision which must do credit to the head of Captain Roblado, if not to his heart.
And uttering a diabolical laugh, the ruffian took down his sabre and buckled the belt around his waist.
The original hound was material enough to tug a man's throat out, and yet he was diabolical as well.
The use of artificial means to make the creature diabolical was a flash of genius upon his part.
In your opinion there is a diabolical agency which makes Dartmoor an unsafe abode for a Baskerville--that is your opinion?
The Germans alternated these with diabolicalingenuity so as to catch us unawares.
Many lay where they had fallen, while their comrades, absolutely helpless against this diabolical agency, rushed madly out of the mephitic mist and made for the rear, over-running the lines of trenches behind them.
There was a full refinement ofdiabolical cruelty in the words.
The ring of diabolical faces confronting him looked terrific in the fell, ruthless purpose, which he read therein.
What a diabolical scheme of fraud by which to live upon the sweat and labor of others.
This diabolical scheme could only come from a "merciful" God.
I ought to have put that question to some one in Tydvil, but did not, though I stood staring at the diabolicalstructure with my mouth open.
For, after all, what does the voice of the owl so much resemble as a diabolical rattle.
The Spanish Inquisition, on the other hand, having all it could do with Jews and heretics, treated witchcraft as a diabolical delusion.
And she affirmed, that this Bishop was at a General Meeting of the Witches, in a Field at Salem-Village, and there partook of a Diabolical Sacrament in Bread and Wine then administred.
And, Who can certainly say, what other Degrees or Methods of sinning, besides that of a Diabolical Compact, may give the Devils advantage to act in the Shape of them that have miscarried?
BUT is New-England, the only Christian Countrey, that hath undergone such Diabolical Molestations?
And it borders on blasphemy to think that God should so far give leave to the devil as out of God's image to raise his own diabolical offspring.
Why doesn't a man always strike out the first of the two words, to gratify his diabolical love of injustice?
In less than a week a regular system of torments was inaugurated, full of the most diabolical malice and ingenuity.
Elsewhere Luther himself describes hate as a “true image of the devil; in fact, it is neither human nor diabolical but the devil himself whose whole being is nothing but an everlasting burning,” etc.
Again, though man by the Grace of God is justified by faith, yet the old diabolical root of sin remains in him, for original sin persists and manifests itself in concupiscence, which is essentially the same thing as original sin.
Though there are many who regard my cause as diabolical and condemn it, yet I know that my word and undertaking is not of me but of God, and neither death nor persecution will teach me otherwise.
Later on, when dealing with his delusions, we shall have to speak of the diabolical apparitions Luther is supposed to have had.
According to him, most noteworthy of all were the diabolical deeds then on the increase which portended a mighty revulsion and a catastrophe in the world’s history.
The breath of Thy mouth dismays the diabolical gainsayer.
Haunted by his diabolical visions he finally became more deeply imbued with pessimism than any present-day representative of the pessimistic philosophy.
God, to be not necessary for eternal life and invite people to take idolatrous, nay, diabolical vows.
Though in his words and the stories he tells of the devil he speaks the language of the populace, yet the way in which he weaves diabolical combats and temptations into man’s whole life is both new and unfortunate.
Amsdorf too was dragged into the diabolical affair; one night at an inn two dead men appeared to him, thanks to some “Satanic art,” and compelled him to draw up a document in writing and hand it over to Joachim.
This senseless alarm was never accounted for, and was consequently ascribed to diabolical influence.
A cunning and almost diabolical look came into his eyes as he pointed to one of these strongholds.
It is a most mysterious and a most diabolical phenomenon, that perch!
He then got into an omnibus, and proceeded to the city, wherein he spent the rest of the day looking over machines and foundries, and trying in vain to find out what diabolicalinvention the over-competition of Mr. Dyce had got hold of.
The streets were deserted: a deathlike silence pervaded the town, which for two days the Indians had been sacking; and their diabolical figures could be perceived, as they passed and repassed among the still flaming ruins.
As he said this, he pointed to Dona Hermosa and again burst into a diabolical laugh.
It was like a sudden gleam of light; the diabolical plan the monster had conceived started forth in all its hideousness.
It seems as though divine perfection were an infinite of the first degree, but as though diabolical perfection were an infinite of unknown power.
Personal consciousness being the root of all our troubles, we ought to avoid the temptation to it and the possibility of it as diabolical and abominable.
Amid the howling of the gale echoed the diabolical beating of drums and blare of trumpets of the captured band of the King Solomon, to whose accompaniment the pirates roared an ear-splitting song.
Scudamore, who had spread out his surgical instruments on his knees, and was gazing at him with a look of diabolical pleasure in his green eyes.
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