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“A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.”

People Church Steeples

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.”

Stills Care Church Lord Take Care Lightning Trustees Steeples

Author:Evan Esar

“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”

People Mind Church Gossip Idle Steeples Old Churches

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.”

America Sound Church Issues Fairs Clock Sunday Usual Pretext Steeples Medley

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.”

Form Literature House Church Views Numbers Rounds Towers Chimneys Abbey Westminster Spires Steeples Westminster Abbey

Book:Travels in England in 1782

Source: Travels in England in 1782

“The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.”

Church White Ignorance Contradiction Swedish Crimson Steeples

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature