"It IS considered rather
heretical in some quarters," admitted Gilbert, "but I told you that before you took it, Miss Cornelia."
The master of it is brother to the great preacher Whitefield; but is absolutely untainted with the pernicious principles of Methodism, or of any other
heretical sect.
When examined at a later date, there appeared to be nothing
heretical in the wording of the text, some authors even went so far as to deny that the
heretical propositions had any real existence.
Pelet would probably have greeted him with a public rebuke, and would certainly have mulcted him both of soup and fish; as it was, that polite though partial gentleman only shook his head, and as I took my place, unrolled my napkin, and said my
heretical grace to myself, he civilly despatched a servant to the kitchen, to bring me a plate of "puree aux carottes" (for this was a maigre-day), and before sending away the first course, reserved for me a portion of the stock-fish of which it consisted.
Until lately, the bare supposition of such a thing was considered
heretical. From the remotest period of antiquity to which the archives have reference, the hours have been regularly struck by the big bell.
Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as
heretical. He lived in the beginning of the fourth century.
But this
heretical doctrine was strongly opposed by the other three, who quoted a great many precedents to show that bad weather was the very time for such appearances; and Mr Parkes (who had had a ghost in his family, by the mother's side) argued the matter with so much ingenuity and force of illustration, that John was only saved from having to retract his opinion by the opportune appearance of supper, to which they applied themselves with a dreadful relish.
The wave of rebellion swept over me in an instant, beginning with an
heretical doubt as to the sanctity of the established order of things--that fetish which has ruled Pan-Americans for two centuries, and which is based upon a blind faith in the infallibility of the prescience of the long-dead framers of the articles of Pan-American federation--and ending in an adamantine determination to defend my honor and my life to the last ditch against the blind and senseless regulation which assumed the synonymity of misfortune and treason.
In the mean time, it became necessary to report to Don Augustin, the effects his arguments and prayers had produced on the
heretical disposition of the young soldier.
One of these, is the State Hospital for the insane; admirably conducted on those enlightened principles of conciliation and kindness, which twenty years ago would have been worse than
heretical, and which have been acted upon with so much success in our own pauper Asylum at Hanwell.
But, after all, what worked most to the young carpenter's disadvantage was, first, the reserve and sternness of his natural disposition, and next, the fact of his not being a church-communicant, and the suspicion of his holding
heretical tenets in matters of religion and polity.
But Dora's aunts soon agreed to regard my aunt as an eccentric and somewhat masculine lady, with a strong understanding; and although my aunt occasionally ruffled the feathers of Dora's aunts, by expressing
heretical opinions on various points of ceremony, she loved me too well not to sacrifice some of her little peculiarities to the general harmony.
