Francis was flagrantly immoral, but a fanatic in religion; and mercy was not a virtue congenial to either church or state.
He was followed there by Bishop Fisher of Rochester, the most aged and venerable of the English prelates, who was charged with countenancing treason by listening to the prophecies of a religious fanatic called the "Nun of Kent.
Why, Nature wrote on his fanatic forehead fifty years ago, "Wit never comes, that comes to all.
And in an account of a fanatic or of a prophet the description of her emotions is expected to be most highly finished.
The fanatic dervise reproached him with his clemency.
Men who recognise him shake their heads, and pity or despise the fanatic who had thrown away the most dazzling prospects for a dream.
The news spread, thefanatic population was soon roused.
Help had been promised by the Earl of Shrewsbury and other Catholic nobles in England, so the fanatic priest had determined to raise the standard of revolt, and thought he saw his way to success.
FN#40] There are at present about eighteen influential Shaykhs at Cairo, too fanatic to listen to reason.
This has now become a point of fanatic honour; but if history may be trusted, it has become so only lately.
They are, according to all accounts, a turbulent and somewhat fanatic set, fond of quarrels, and slightly addicted to "pronunciamentos.
He was secretary of the Independent Socialist party's executive committee, an honest fanaticand but one step removed from a communist.
Brutus Molkenbuhr, the Majority Socialist co-chairman with Richard Mueller was no match for his fanatic colleague, and most of the other members were nobodies of at most not more than average intelligence.
A scraggly-bearded fanatic in one of the public galleries today repeatedly howled insults at Majority Socialist speakers, and, although repeated remonstrances were made, nobody had enough energy or courage to throw him out.
There was always Bow Street wherein to loaf, and the study of the criminal law lost none of its excitement from the reward offered outside for the bald-headed fanatic who sat placidly within.
But she was no shrieking reformer, no fanatic spying regeneration in a pair of breeches.
A fanatic easily makes conquests among a wretched people.
Every fanatic that is punished is certain of finding credulous friends to aid him, because they persuade themselves it is for truth he is persecuted.
He plucked Basil by the sleeve, and the fanatic came to a dead stop instantly.
The yellow-faced fanatic was as quick-handed as he was quick-witted.
At first their numbers were, of course, insignificant, and of course they drew down upon themselves the anathemas of the fanatic Mollahs[15] and the hatred of the ignorant multitude.
Yet, curiously enough, these fanatic radicals tend to join hands with the fanatic reactionaries of Islam in a common hatred of the West.
Once the disciplined strength of the East Roman legions and the Persian cuirassiers had broken before the fiery onslaught of the fanatic sons of the desert, it was all over.
Perhaps it is symptomatic of a more bellicose temper in Islam that the last few years have witnessed the rapid spread of two new puritan, fanatic movements--the Ikhwan and the Salafîya.
Instead, influential Moslems outside of Turkey generally condemned the latter's action and did all in their power to calm the passions of the fanatic multitude.
The fanatic maxim of extirpating fanaticism by persecution produced a civil war.
Isabella's enthusiasm for the new minister was more like passion than patronage; and Philip's deference to him possessed all the fanaticzeal of the devotee who worships the object he has beatified.
Prelanding planning did not perceive the Pocket for what it was, a complex cave and ridge fortress suitable to a fanatic and suicidal defense.
This strategic concept was synchronized with the fanatic Japanese spirit of bushido.
I do not believe that fanaticism exists as it used to do in the world, judging from what I have seen in this so-called fanatic land.
He sent two companies of infantry with one gun by steamer to Abba to arrest the fanatic who disturbed the public peace.
Blasphemy and prostitution, the refuge of despair, alternated in the camp of the Crusaders with fanatic visions of visiting archangels, of armed and shining knights descending the slopes of heaven in their defence.
Reeling and shouting to the sound of fifes and drums, in a gross satire of the dance of the fanatic flagellants, they whipped themselves into a furious rage and then attacked the walls.
His imprisonment might provoke the despair of his enthusiasm; and the exile of an eloquent and popular fanaticwould diffuse the mischief through the provinces of Arabia.
On the fifth day, the crusaders made a general assault, in the fanatic hope of battering down the walls without engines, and of scaling them without ladders.
But a religion of peace was incapable of withstanding the fanaticcry of "Fight, fight!
A fanatic Iman deplored, in his sermons, the scandalous neighborhood, and accused the weakness or indifference of the faithful.
In the council of Placentia, his ambassadors had solicited a moderate succor, perhaps of ten thousand soldiers, but he was astonished by the approach of so many potent chiefs and fanatic nations.
The cold philosophy of modern times is incapable of feeling the impression that was made on a sinful and fanatic world.
More fanatic in religion than their men, they objected to being sketched, crouching to the ground and covering themselves completely with draperies, so we had to desist.
The Mahommedan is much more fanatic in these parts than his more civilized brother of Salonika or Constantinople.
