The Iconoclasts of greed joined hands with the Iconoclasts of blindness and rage and with the Iconoclasts of academic pride.
Then, once the new axioms have been forced down the throats of their colleagues, the innovators become the Old Order; the iconoclasts become the ones who put the fences around the new images to safeguard them.
Swarms of Iconoclasts already penetrated into Brabant; and the metropolis, where they were certain of powerful support, was threatened by them with a renewal of the same atrocities then under the very eyes of majesty.
All of that religion, who had hitherto been members of the league, now forsook it, alleging that even if it had not intentionally excited and encouraged the excesses of the Iconoclasts it had beyond question remotely led to them.
In the same month, they observed, in which the nobles had sent in their three articles of pacification, the Iconoclasts had commenced their work; on the evening of the very day that Orange quitted Antwerp the churches too were plundered.
Other Iconoclasts from Valenciennes united themselves with those of Tournay to despoil all the cloisters of the surrounding district, during which a valuable library, the accumulation of centuries, was destroyed by fire.
Of all the Belgian towns which had participated in the insurrection of the Iconoclasts none had caused the regent so much alarm as the town of Valenciennes, in Hainault.
All the gates of the town were locked but one, through which the Iconoclasts broke forth to renew the same atrocities in the rural districts.
Philip lay sick at Segovia when the news of the outbreak of the Iconoclasts and the uncatholic agreement entered into with the Reformers reached him.
It is true that she at last crushed the Protestant faction, but the accidental outbreak of the Iconoclasts assisted her in this more than all her dexterity.
From Valenciennes the regent directed her attention to Herzogenbusch, where the Iconoclasts had lately committed fresh excesses, and the party of the Protestants had gained a great accession of strength.
The iconoclasts proper, who not only condemned image worship in the sense just explained but rejected all religious art whatever.
The brass plate bearing the well-known epitaph was at the same time placed in the transept, only to become the spoil of the Calvinist Iconoclasts in 1578, when already the casket had somehow or other long since disappeared.
The age of the Iconoclasts was the golden age of the Studite monks.
This was the point on which the orthodox met the theologians who defended iconoclasm: the iconoclasts in seeking to destroy all images were seen to strike at a vital truth of the Incarnation, the true humanity of Jesus.
He was a devoted servant and admirer of monks, and began to undo the work of his father-in-law, and remove all Iconoclasts from office.
The religious difficulties of the day he endeavoured to treat in an absolutely impartial way, so as to offend neither Iconoclasts nor Iconodules.
The Iconoclasts seem to have been taken by surprise, and made no resistance to the revolution: however the empress did not take any measures to persecute them; it was only power and not security for life and limb that they lost.
That the deeds of the iconoclasts arose from the spontaneous outburst of mere vulgar fury, admits of no doubt.
When Philip's letters reached Brussels, the iconoclasts or image-breakers were abroad.
The iconoclasts used hammers, while those who purify our social atmosphere and make this once again a government of, for and by the people may have to empty gatling guns and load them with carbolic acid.
Whoever were the original possessors, it was probably concealed in the fen to save it from the Puritan iconoclasts of the seventeenth century, who, during the Civil War, habitually destroyed lecterns of this type as "abominable idols.
Then came the Reformation under Henry the Eighth, and we come face to face with the work of iconoclasts rather than of builders.
Only one head half hidden by sculptured foliage escaped the iconoclasts as they went round the hallowed walls to "break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers.
In the west of Europe, where the abuses of the image-worship had never yet reached the wild superstition of the Oriental Christians, the fury of the Iconoclasts excited horror and consternation.
From St. Martin's the iconoclasts visited in like manner the other ecclesiastical edifices of the town and its suburbs.
Let us follow the course of the heresies which, during four centuries and a half from the Nicene Council in 325, to the defeat of the Iconoclasts at the Seventh Council, attacked the faith of the Church.
When the decree reached the provinces, Catholics were everywhere dismayed; the Iconoclasts began to sell the holy vessels and disorganise the churches.
He condemned the iconoclasts at a council convened at Rome in November 731, and, like his predecessor Gregory II.
In 1884, some local iconoclasts actually removed the pedlar from the window, to put up modern glass to the relatives of certain officials.
The iconoclasts seem to have concentrated their attention on those earlier New Testament groups, which would contain the figure of our Lady, and they have made the Crucifixion almost unrecognisable.
There is a great crack (now filled with mortar) round these two figures, as if the attack of the iconoclasts had been made with heavy tools.
With the right hand they pass further laws for the iconoclasts to denounce.
With the left hand they greet the iconoclasts and hand them royalties.
There will be war--red war, and we in the army of the iconoclasts growling impotently at each other will face about and have at them with hullaballo and manifesto and snickersnee in turn.
In Valenciennes the iconoclasts were offered large sums if they would refrain from desecrating the churches of that city, but they rejected the proposal with disdain.
The bands of iconoclasts were of the lowest character, and few in number.
Even the iconoclasts of the present day do not want us to throw away such text-book learning as we have achieved.
The iconoclasts do the same thing; for civilization, whether it be perfect or not, is a fruit of time.
Concerning Mrs. Gilchrist there was not much to be said, even by such incipient iconoclasts as Mrs. Basine.
The long and persevering efforts of the Iconoclasts proved therefore ineffective; and the Waldenses were not more fortunate.
Pompadour herself stole away from her tiresome lover-king to the freethinking coterie that met in her physician's apartments in the Entresol at Versailles, and included the greatesticonoclasts of the age.
But the etiquette, the urbanity, the measure, which assured the outward harmony of a society that courted distinction of every kind, were quite foreign to the iconoclasts who were bent upon leveling all distinctions.
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