The tirades against the priests in this book surpass in violence and indecency any yet published.
And De Maistre waxes wroth over Voltaire's violent, irreligious tirades against the sacrificial festivals of the old pagans.
They had plenty of talent at command, were full of classical tirades against tyranny, and, though sensitive enough in their private life, were bloodthirsty butchers in their public relations.
After delivering their eloquent tirades against the use of intoxicating drinks, to the people, the first thing they do is to ask for a bottle of wine, which soon disappears!
Senator John Randolph abused this license, and one day commenced one of his tirades by saying: "Mr. Speaker!
And yet, as I have said, the half-hours spent in listening to these tirades were not cheerless, and no bad effects followed.
But after a while they became, if not exactly weary in well-doing, at least a little weary of the unintermittent tirades against ill-doing.
Mrs. Colfax was under its sway, and doubly miserable because Clarence would listen to her tirades no more.
And when none was present, she was forced to listen to Mrs. Colfax's prattle about the fashions, her tirades against the Yankees.
He was a brave soldier of humanity, but he had no sense of art, and I could not stand the dirty mob around him with its atmosphere of filthy German tobacco and vulgar tirades against tyrants.
Nay, 'tis not by such tirades that Truth is advanced.
Laura in spite of Petrarch's tirades against all physicians and even against Guy himself.
The effect of these tiradesupon the South cannot be well conceived.
The tirades of the North are calculated to drive the negro population of the South to bloody massacres and insurrections.
I would rather act that page than Pauline in Polyeucte, though Mademoiselle swears I speak her tirades nearly as well as an actress she once saw at the Marais, who was too old and fat for the character.
War must be--it is the source of the highest dignities and honours--that the girls see very well, and they have had also to learn by heart the poems and tirades in which war is magnified.
Its papers, The Poor Man's Guardian, The Destructive, and others, were full of tirades against wealth and privilege.
When Nance was not listening totirades against Susan up-stairs, she was listening to bitter complaints against Miss Bobinet down-stairs.
Her breaking in was a hard one, for she was as quick of tongue as she was of fingers, and her tirades against the monotony, the high speed, and the small pay were frequent and vehement.
A poor cottager has nothing to do with letters, unless he be made better and happier by acquaintance with them; and should his attention be directed to the tirades of Messrs.
Everything bears the impress of sublime peace, of that same peace by which the works of Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, and Burne-Jones are to be distinguished from the ecstatic and sentimental tirades of the Romanticists.
This roused his ire not a little, and he made the chancels of Trent ring with savage tirades against the Jews.
Preaching friars made the chancels ring with tirades against them, and openly advocated their utter extermination.
It was very comical to see a little girl as you were then, fair-haired and blushing, bending in the slightest breeze, declaim those noble tirades without taking breath, and with the most martial air imaginable.
Desnoyers was accustomed to humor Robert's tirades against his fellow citizens because the man had always humored his whimseys about the incessant rearrangement of his furniture.
And in order to ventilate his wrath, he broke forth into tirades against the enemy's espionage, against the carelessness of the police force in permitting so many Germans to remain hidden in Paris.
The innumerable tirades of which the above is a fair specimen were not very remarkable for literary merit or political wisdom.
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