His religious inconstancy was taxed by the epithet of Chameleon, but the Catholics have acknowledged by the voice of a saint and confessors, that the life of the Iconoclast was useful to the republic.
The Iconoclastheresy was again solemnly denounced, and the previous Council of Nicea confirmed.
Tithes, lands, farms, buildings belonging to the church all went the same way, until the hand of the iconoclast was stayed, as there was little left to steal or to be destroyed.
The matter is not made better by the bitter tone of the press, which, arrogating to itself the office of defenders of true art, smites heavily the "iconoclast Wagner.
The story of the invitation of Richard Wagner, the then dreaded iconoclast of music, to London, to conduct the concerts of the conservative Philharmonic Society, is both curious and interesting, in the history of the tonal art.
So with the doom that overtook the iconoclast teacher; the natives related his destruction of Katalewe and his subsequent fate as totally unconnected episodes.
Iconoclast respectfully invites the clergy and ministers of Yarmouth to discuss his lectures; especially those who claim to have refuted him during his absence.
Whatever may have been the actuating motive, his deeds as an iconoclast remain before our eyes.
The greaticonoclast has the same grievance in the adjoining village of Toft, where he got "only 6s.
Such aniconoclast has never before put pen to paper.
The iconoclast that is in the heart of this poet is rampant.
It was a beautiful evening; and when the lecture was over several hundred persons escorted "Iconoclast in a sort of triumphant procession" to his lodgings.
The police sergeant was sadly bothered; he tried again; but Iconoclast quoted legal authorities.
Mr Porteous paid their champion out of the proceeds, but "he nevertheless afterwards claimed and received from Iconoclast the further sum of L2 10s.
They determined to oppose the wicked Iconoclast in every way, and began by engaging the largest hall available and advertising the same subjects as those announced for the Freethought platform.
The Primitive Methodist[120] jubilantly remarked that "Iconoclast has been made to wince lately by the reproduction of his published opinions--very inconvenient to him at this time.
Brewin Grant had done on a former occasion, strongly complained that Iconoclast looked at him whilst he was speaking.
Now, I ask the reader what think you, whoever you be, suppose Iconoclast himself was guaranteed to be better paid than he now is for travelling from place to place, do you not think he would turn round?
The town missionary rushed into verse upon the subject of "Iconoclast and the Devil," and issued his polite reflections in the form of a handbill.
The poor policeman then consulted with those about him, and finding bullying of no avail, at length retired, leaving Iconoclast and his audience in possession of the field.
Justice has hardly yet been done to a period which, opening with the iconoclast thunders of Sir David Lyndsay, included the compositions of the gallant James V.
But nowhere has he unmasked so Mephistophelian a countenance as in his essays on Luther and on an obscure German iconoclastnamed Friedrich Nietschke (Essays: Fremmede Personligheder, pp.
It is not to be denied that the iconoclast may be in the right and society in the wrong; but it is by no means a foregone conclusion that such is the case.
During theiconoclast persecution a new popular art makes its appearance in and about those remote monasteries that were the strongholds of the mystics.
Monks driven out of the East by the iconoclast persecutions found Western Europe Christian and left it religious.
Early in the eighth century began the iconoclast onslaught.
How softly the phrases of the gentle iconoclast steal upon the ear, and how they must have hushed the questioning audience into pleased attention!
The cult of images was now solemnly restored, iconoclast bishops deposed or reconciled, the dogmatic theory of images defined, and church discipline re-established.
Acts of the Iconoclast Council of 815," in a treatise of Nicephorus discovered by M.
In his eagerness to restore the simplicity of the primitive church he even assailed Mariolatry, intercession of saints, relics and perhaps infant baptism, to the scandal even of the iconoclast bishops themselves.
Flaccus danced and screamed with horror, while his servants dragged the ravingiconoclast from his impassive victim.
The nineteenth century will stand in history as the chiefest iconoclast which has arisen in the world's first six thousand years.
Christianity was the iconoclast which broke in pieces the images of decrepit polytheism, and hewed out a way where progress might march to fulfill her splendid destiny.
The Declaration of Independence and the Federation of the States were the iconoclast which slew the phantom of the divine necessity of kings.
Shakespeare was an innovator of the laws of the drama when he violated unities of time and place; and in a sense the drama was an innovation on narrative poetry, and the novel an iconoclast in its attitude to the drama.
Luther was the iconoclast whose giant strokes demolished the castle doors of Romish superstition, and broke to fragments the images of Mariolatry.
His son Constantine was as zealous an iconoclast as his father; but great disturbances were caused by his proceedings.
She sentenced the iconoclast patriarch to a whipping of two hundred lashes instead of the loss of his eyes.
But Oenomaus, as we know him from Eusebius, was a far more formidable and more pitiless iconoclast than Didymus.
Pictures of all kinds, as well as statues, were destroyed by the iconoclast fanatics, and the cause of learning suffered almost as much as did the arts of painting and sculpture.
In the eighth century the iconoclast schism, fostered by the Emperor Leo III.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iconoclast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
