 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1900 - 244 Seiten
...vigorous that Dryden has not bettered it in the following, how, Ere the storm of war broke out, Keligion spawn'da various rout Of petulant, capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts. and presently, how Presbyter and Independent Were now turn'd Plaintiff and Defendant. But it is for... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1905 - 226 Seiten
...harbour for all infidelity." This evil is alluded to in Butler's Hudibras (Part 1n. canto ii. 7) : " So, ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'da...capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts." misgoverned by a handful of unscrupulous adventurers, who called themselves the Ministers of the King.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 356 Seiten
...Founders of his House ; From whose corrupted Flesh that Breed Of Vermine did at first proceed. So, e'r the Storm of War broke out, Religion spawn'da various Rout, Of Petulant Capricious Seels, The Maggots of Corrupted Texts, That first run all Religion down, And after every Swarm its... | |
 | Arthur Hayden - 1919 - 474 Seiten
...conceived the idea of fo\mding new religions on misprints. As Samuel Butler in his Hitdibras says : Religion spawn'da various rout Of petulant capricious sects. The maggots of corrupted texts. At this time printers do not seem to have been so careful of sacred writings as they are now of secular.... | |
 | John Stephen Vaughan - 1922 - 304 Seiten
...ready and correct interpreter of Hebrew symbolism. CHAPTER III. PEIVATB JUDGMENT AND FEEE INQUIEY. Religion spawn'da various rout Of petulant, capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts. — Butler. In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a... | |
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Of vermin did at first proceed. So e're the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'da various rout Of petulant Capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after ev'ry swarm its own. For as the Persian {h} Magi... 
