He professed a most edifying sense of religion, pretended great zeal for the reformation of manners, and was really an example of sobriety, chastity, and temperance in the whole course of his life.
The story opens briefly, after the fashion of the Bible, whose brevity in words is such a contrast to the tediousness of most professed sacred books.
The most dangerous feature we know of in these professed spirit-messages is their constant tendency to place themselves before our minds as our refuge and confidence rather than God.
Jeanne professed herself satisfied, and so the matter rested.
On that mountain was the temple which was dedicated during the heathen Rome to all heathen Gods, and during the Papal Rome to all Saints or all Gods whom the Pope professed to worship.
His introduction of professed poisoners from Europe, ii.
When I vnderstoode this, I confessed freely, that I was a Romane, but professed to the fayth of Mahumet in the citie of Babylon, and there made one of the Mamalukes; whereof he seemed greatly to reioyce and therefore vsed me honourably.
New York made complaint to Congress of the employment of troops by Vermont to reduce residents thereof who professed allegiance to New York, and again urged the intervention of Congress.
We regret to have to say that this dirty work has generally been done by professed ministers of the gospel.
Mab has always professed to positively loathe Percy; tolerated him because she liked his sister.
You professed anxiety to finish your castle on the sands, yet you are spending your time on the wall!
His friends--the nice friends who feel privileged to say nasty things--by reason of that fondness, professed to see in it a chance of his redemption.
Mrs. Seton-Carr professed accord in the opinion of Masters' dulness; the sea voyage had not improved him.
Just looked into the drawing-room at the bungalow, professed weariness, said a hurried good-night and retired to his room.
The false {198} teachers professed to be "teachers of the Law" (1 Tim.
For it would have encouraged slaves to make Christianity a cloak for revolt, and precipitated horrors far worse than those which it could have professed to remove.
These manuscripts were made public by Mr. Collier, whoprofessed to have discovered them chiefly in the Bridgewater and Dulwich collections.
In his professed reprint of one manuscript (Mrs. Alleyn's letter) Mr. Collier has inserted several lines relating to Shakespeare which could not possibly have formed a part of the passage which he professes to reprint.
But in the religious faith which Agnes professed there was a modifying force, whose power both for good and evil can scarcely be estimated.
The idolatrous population of Rome, when the tidings reached them, ignoring the fact of his having professed himself a Christian, resolved to regard the deceased emperor as one in the series of Caesars.
The true Christians in Rome mourned at what took place, but their influence was weak compared to that of the idolaters, supported as the latter were evidently by many who had professed to embrace the new faith.
His numerous Christian friends could not, on principle, resist the law under which the officer professed to be acting.
On approaching the sanctuary of Mars, the driver, who professed to be a Christian, informed him that it had been taken possession of by a body of holy recluses.
Those whoprofessed to have become Christians appeared to be and evidently were, on most friendly terms with the idolaters, all being united by a common interest.
Still, the temptations to join the religion professed by the emperor were great.
He, with some difficulty, obtained a guide who professed to be acquainted with all the intricate turnings of the galleries, and, moreover, to know Severus and Eugenia by sight.
Already numerous conversions had taken place among the patricians, as well as among persons of inferior rank; whole families who had hitherto appeared to be staunch idolaters now professedthemselves Christians.
Far, however, from feeling himself defeated or acknowledging his error, he professed to have made a mistake in the date; and predicted the end of the world for 1588.
In the earlier days of ventriloquism, from the Witch of Endor downwards, the art appears to have been almost peculiar to the female sex; though in our own timesprofessed only by males.
In the beginning of the last century, there were individuals whoprofessed to have a powder which extinguished fire.
They professed to be hierophants as much as philosophers, and exhibited the unmistakable tendency to represent a Pagan copy of Christianity, which should be at the same time a philosophy and a universal religion.
The first article in the form of accusation, which evidently refers to this very point, shows that Socrates did not speak barely metaphorically of this voice, to which heprofessed to owe his prophecies.
It was a diversion, and after a little while Bessie professed she had had enough of the church steps.
Sir, the principles of Toland, Woolston, and all the freethinkers, are not calculated to do half the mischief, as those professedby this fellow and his followers.
Surely those things, which savour so strongly of this world, become not the servants of one who professed His kingdom was not of it.
And we have never resorted to the paltry evasion of doing secretly what we professed openly to avoid.
Yes,' says the professed Tory, 'you certainly are sweeping the country.
This congregation, by frequenting an Episcopalian temple, evidently professed the form of faith of the English church; yet they neither uttered the responses, nor observed any one of the directions in the Common Prayer-book.
I have been whirled along in a light-built carriage by a pair of famous professed trotters, who certainly got over the ground at the rate of a moderate-going steam-engine, and this without ever for a moment breaking into a gallop.
In Moxon's Chaucer, which professed to accept Tyrwhitt's canon, this piece was omitted; but it was revived once more by Bell.
Jackson made no recognition of Jeff's professed self-sacrifice.
Missing his aim he affected to have been ignorant of the fact that he was encountered by Indians, professed great joy at meeting with them, and declared that he was then on his way to their towns.
Finding them very superstitious and believers in necromancy; she professed witchcraft, and affected to be a prophetess.
It dashed at once his dearest hopes, and his confidence, until then implicit, in the sincerity of the principles professed by the deputy of the Third Estate.
In all matters of art he was inclined to laugh at professed critics, and say that their opinions were formed by fashion.
I send you a uniquely laudatory epistle, considering it was from a man who hardly knows a Daisy from a Dandelion to a professed Botanist.
But my mind was unbiassed in respect of any doctrine which presented itself, if it professedto be based on purely philosophical and scientific reasoning.
