Succeeding times will Canonize thy Acts When they shall read what great ones thou hast done In honour of us and our sacred gods; For which, next unto Iove, they gave a Laurell To Bellizarius, whose studious braine Fram'd all these wracks and tortures for these Christians.

But with what shameful servility have many false or faulty definitions and rules been copied and copied from one grammar to another, as if authority had canonized their errors, or none had eyes to see them!

We sympathize with nations that overthrow the thrones, and in our secret hearts we almost canonize individuals who slay the tyrants.

And Des Esseintes thought of those ecclesiastics who had taken vows of sterility, yet were so inconsistent as to canonize Saint Vincent de Paul, because he brought vain tortures to innocent creatures.

If, before they canonized all these saints, they had consulted their servant, perhaps they would not have found a single one of them.

Her sons malicious clemency shall spare, To form new legends, sanctify new crimes; To canonize the slaves of superstition, And fill the world with follies and impostures, Till angry heav'n shall mark them out for ruin, And war o'erwhelm them in their dream of vice.