Such, in fact, whether this was their purpose or not, were the character and tendency of the plots and impostures which, for so many years, kept Henry in disquiet and anxiety.
This is indeed no difficulty for those who will only exercise their reason, for amongst the numerous evident impostures we have here mentioned, where may we find one real relic of which we may feel certain that it is such as is represented?
Poor souls--they and their spiritual protectors have alike passed away--and we can now look with the eye of Philosophy on the impotent impostures of one party, and on the unsuspecting credulity of the other!
Finding himself entirely in the hands of the king, he now retracted all his former impostures with regard to the popish plot, and even endeavored to atone for them by new impostures against the country party.
This abandoned man, when examined before the council, betrayed his impostures in such a manner, as would have utterly discredited the most consistent story, and the most reputable evidence.
They say he is a man above all the petty and false impostures of dull pretenders--that he is versed in the learning of the stars, and the secrets of the ancient Nox; why not in the mysteries of love?
A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers.
He was among the first to recognize the peculiar genius of Crabbe, and to detect the impostures of Macpherson and Chatterton, while doing full justice to "the astonishing prematurity" of the latter's genius.
He, indeed, knew that such arrangements were common throughout Europe, and that numberless impostureshad thus been carried out.
Our only sure guide and prevention against such impostures is the study of God's Word and constant obedience to its holy precepts.
These impostures remind us of the story of the wag who, fixing his eyes upon the lion over Northumberland House, exclaimed, "By heaven!
Are we to give credit to the various observations that record the wonderful effects of animal magnetism; or should we reject them as the impostures of knaves, or the result of the credulity of fools?
Lucius in discovering the impostures of the false prophet Alexander, says, that the oracles were chiefly afraid of the subtilties of the Epicureans and Christians.
Indeed, the austerity of their lives[4] was well calculated to strengthen the impression which their cunning had already made on the multitude, and to prepare the way for whatever impostures they might afterwards practise.
John Brinley, "Gentleman," brought out in 1680 A Discovery of the Impostures of Witches and Astrologers.
On other impostures see Thomas Fuller, Church History of Britain (London, 1655; Oxford, ed.
John Gee, The Foot out of the Snare, or Detection of Practices and Impostures of Priests and Jesuits in England .
These were but the first of several impostures that interested the king.
The Boy of Bilson: or A True Discovery of the Late Notorious Impostures of Certaine Romish Priests in their pretended Exorcisme, or expulsion of the Divell out of a young Boy, named William Perry.
The founders of these Religions, knowing well that their impostures were based upon the ignorance of the people, took care to keep them in it by the adoration of images in which they feigned that the Divinities resided.
The conferences of Moses and Mahomet with the Deity, and the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ, are the greatest impostures that have ever met the face of day, and you must shun their contemplation as you love the truth.
Without dwelling on the reveries of a people cradled in bondage and brought up in absurdity, it is sufficient to remark, that ignorance has produced a belief in all the impostures and errors which prevail amongst us at the present day.
In the eleventh paragraph he inquires into the impostures of several politicians such as Numa, and Alexander the Great.
In fine, they all appear to be a mass of impostures and reveries, equally disgusting to reason.
A history of religious impostures would form a library of itself.
It seemed as though he was enabled to hold the victims of his impostures in a state of enchantment.
Yet I shall still carry it out in some degree, inasmuch as I hope that my defence will convict you of more real impostures which you have imputed to me.
Do you believe in the honourable accumulation of wealth by men who hold such opinions and perpetrate such impostures as these?
It is the abuse and corruption of Christianity that is wearing out--as all falsities and all impostures must and do wear out.
And what could not say, were I to tell you of what I know of the daily miraculous impostures of the scapulars, holy water, chaplets and medals of every kind.
To pretend it is an Answer to the Impostures of Sir W.
Finally, he will perceive, that, to reign with glory, he must have good laws and inculcate virtue, and not found his power upon impostures and fallacies.
A Christian regards the Koran, that is, the divine revelation announced by Mahomet, as nothing but a tissue of impertinent reveries, and impostures insulting to the divinity.
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