 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 402 pages
...passions, but perhaps incapable of an act of premeditated treachery. • • ABBOTSFORD, 1st August 1830. Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks.... | |
 | Danzy Sheen - Bible - 1870
...than as the benefits of war. Most of the men are dead, and the rest are dying who— " . . . . baild their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery."* * Butler. All this change in the face of society is traceable... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...HE was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...He was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; emptation still attends. George Wither. 26O3. PROVIDENCE, Divine. All is of controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant To be the true Church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox lly apostolic blows and knocks;... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...he was of that stubborn . crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant: Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...For he was of that stubborn Crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their Faith upon The holy text of Pike and Gun, Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery, And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolick Blows and Knocks,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...Murther") recognizably the same as that in Butler's lines on the Presbyterian true-blue errant saints: Such as do build their Faith upon The holy Text of Pike and Gun; Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery; And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolick Blows and Knocks.... | |
 | Salomon Ludwig Steinheim - 444 pages
...Buttler,. der Dichter des Hudibras , und bezeichnete solche Disputatoren mit den Worten : Such äs do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, And prove their doctrines orthodox By apostolic blows or knooks. das im Deutschen etwa so klingen würde:... | |
 | Bernard Crick - Political Science - 1993 - 272 pages
...crew of errant saints *, as caricatured long ago by Samuel Butler in Hudibras, the puritan knight: Such as do build their Faith upon The Holy Text of Pike and Gun, Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery, And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolic Blows and Knocks;... | |
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For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox... 
