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“It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.”

Believe May Different Speak I Believe Holy Understood Bible Deny Pious Prudent Holy Bible Untruth True Meaning

Book:Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works

Source: Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works

“May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.”

May Real Wind Spring Snow Fraud Eastern Pious Parody Ghastly

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat”

Men May Religion Repeats Seats Inward Pious

Book:The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

Source: The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti

“872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.”

Source: A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.