They are full of bitter invectives against the corrupt papacy; call the pope worse than Lucifer, a murderer of the souls committed to him, who condemns the guiltless and sells believers for filthy lucre.
But neither the one nor the other, to say nothing of the rudeinvectives of Thomas Murner, was able to shake the bold reformer and check the rapid spread of his opinions.
But in France he immediately again repudiated this confession with bitter invectives against Rome, and vindicated anew against Lanfranc and others his earlier views.
His violent and abusive invectives against monkery, transubstantiation, and the immaculate conception obliged him, in A.
One may turn from the invectives of the great saint to forms of satire more frankly literary.
Invectives of this nature have their deepest source in the religious sense of the ineradicable opposition between this world and the kingdom of heaven.
I am cut to the heart, Madam, with invectives so violent.
In effect, the very invectives that frightened weak minds, disgusted more generous spirits.
Many smiled as they listened to him, but others gave credit to the invectives of the blustering orator, and the violence of his character secured him a tyrannical sway in the Sorbonne.
For some minutes the curses and invectives had died away on his lips, and he seemed to listen attentively to the sinister notes of the alarm- bells which were calling incessantly upon the Tyrolese to prepare for the struggle.
But there were times when to any impartial mind the invectives of Thiers made the Imperial policy look noble and enlightened in comparison with the canons of detestable egotism which he propounded as the true principles of government.
Invectives and excommunications were their only weapons; and these, during the progress of the whole controversy, they hurled against each other with equal fury and devotion.
It would be wiser for Christianity, retreating upon its genuine records in the New Testament, to disclaim this fierce African, than to identify itself with his furious invectives by unsatisfactory apologies for their unchristian fanaticism.
He launched out into invectives more bitter than ever against Philip, and in a tone of defiance told such of the Spanish cardinals as were present that they might repeat his sayings to their master.
The uproar had now reached its height, and Darby's yells and invectives were poured forth with true native fluency.
I have, till now, borne your injurious language in silence, but at length venture to inquire what offence you can charge me with, for I have not hitherto been able to guess from your invectives what it is that you complain of.
These invectives having arrived in the moon, it was plain that they had all been lost upon the inaccessible husbands, and I could not help admiring the firmness of men.
Hundred invectives more I often use Against the Poet and his strumpet muse.
Is it not time to polish then our Welsh When hinds and peasants such invectives belch?
Marino made fun of it in a sonnet; Murtola retorted; and a warfare of invectives began which equaled for scurrility and filth the duels of Poggio and Valla.
Afterwards, when he quarreled with their Order, he showered invectives on them in the manner of a Poggio or Filelfo.
His description of the miseries of war is most eloquently persuasive, and his invectives against the opposition, and their mysterious champion, abound with the most forcible and poignant satire.
I am so sorry for poor dear Lindore," said Lady Juliana after having exhausted herself in invectives against his wife.
The two Apologies contain the most vehement invectives against the whole system of heathen idolatry, and accuse Jupiter and the other gods whom the Romans revered of ineffable vices.
Anyone who had read his passionate invectives afterward may form some notion of what he was when in the thick of his youthful battles.
Barrot and the series of invectives which he aimed directly at Guizot, I began to wonder yesterday how such things could be said and heard without leading to further explanations by means of swords and pistols.
He is very greatly hurt that the Powers should have put him in such a position, but is too sensible to listen to the invectives and the uproar of the Ministerial Press.
This made the people interrupt him with their shouts when he was speaking, as they had never done before; and Scipio was so far transported with passion as to break out into invectives against them.
It suited some one to forge pretended invectives between Sallust and Cicero, and is chiefly noteworthy here because it gives to Dio Cassius a foundation for the hardest of hard words he said against the orator.
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