spite of million villains, this makes me a
bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man!
After a generation of half-piratical depredations by the English seadogs against the Spanish treasure fleets and the Spanish settlements in America, King Philip, exasperated beyond all patience and urged on by a
bigot's zeal for the Catholic Church, began deliberately to prepare the Great Armada, which was to crush at one blow the insolence, the independence, and the religion of England.
I did not believe a word of this, but rather than have trouble I let it go; for it is a waste of breath to argue with a
bigot. I even doubted if the Rhone glacier WAS in a Protestant canton; but I did not know, so I could not make anything by contradicting a man who would probably put me down at once with manufactured evidence.
De
Bigot,'' he added to his seneschal, ``thou wilt word this our second summons so courteously, as to gratify the pride of these Saxons, and make it impossible for them again to refuse; although, by the bones of Becket, courtesy to them is casting pearls before swine.''
of Spain is a
bigot. He is, perhaps, the confessor of Phillip III."
I know nothing of the arcana of the Roman Catholic religion, and I am not a
bigot in matters of theology, but I suspect the root of this precocious impurity, so obvious, so general in Popish countries, is to be found in the discipline, if not the doctrines of the Church of Rome.
Without electricity the air would rot, and without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of
bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.
The
bigots of the day hinted that it would be no matter of surprise if an evil spirit were allowed to enter this beautiful form, and seduce the carver to destruction.
Choked in weeds; Christians,
bigots,--why, Rachel herself, would be a slave with a fan to sing songs to men when they felt drowsy.
Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind; yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized:--"Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all." Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable, and gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of
bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.
Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they disseminate no prejudices; rear no
bigots; dig up the buried ashes of no old superstitions; never interpose between the people and their improvement; exclude no man because of his religious opinions; above all, in their whole course of study and instruction, recognise a world, and a broad one too, lying beyond the college walls.