Do we say iconoclast or heretic

iconoclast 26 occurrences

Abdullah, the iconoclast, made thirty-three.

" We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica and the nervous rhetoric of the Iconoclast and to point out some of those magnificent passages which occur in the Treatise of Reformation, and the Animadversions on the Remonstrant.

Am I so bold as to play the iconoclast with an accredited superstition?

Destroyer N. destroyer &c (destroy) &c 162; cankerworm &c (bane) 663; assassin &c (killer) 361; executioner &c (punish) 975; biblioclast^, eidoloclast^, iconoclast, idoloclast^; nihilist. 166.

schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist^; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror^. bigot &c (obstinacy) 606; fanatic, abdal^, iconoclast.

"Icon" means image (cf. iconoclast); the word has lately become familiar through the religious use of icons by the Russians in the war with Japan.

He has the same leonine look that distinguished the famous English iconoclast, Charles Bradlaugh.

M. Hector France is no savage iconoclast gone mad with sectarian hatred.

And, barring him from high careers, Breaks, like a mad iconoclast, The nation's idols of the past.

It is unwise, when the necessity arises to set aside a worthless or an imperfect image, to turn Iconoclast and demolish those surrounding it which are worthy of a place in the temple.

I have been a fool and an iconoclast instead of a builder.

So, crammed with theoriestheories as yet untested by experienceJoe became an iconoclast lusting for change.

Savonarola has sometimes been described as an iconoclast, obstinately hostile to the fine arts.

She was no iconoclast, no hater of what other men love and venerate.

A Devout Russian iconoclast; being a review of The Short novels of Dostoevsky.

A Devout Russian iconoclast; being a review of The Short novels of Dostoevsky.

The rôle of the iconoclast is a thankless one

The month of June I spent in New York city, where I attended several of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's receptions and saw the great orator and iconoclast at his own fireside, surrounded by his admirers, and heard his beautiful daughters sing, which gave all who listened great pleasure, as they have remarkably fine voices.

IIamsurprised" "But, Your Honor," expostulated the iconoclast upon the back row, "I guess nobody is going to waste much time over this Turkish snake charmer!

Hence it is in Italy only that any important remains of sacred art anterior to the Iconoclast dynasty have been preserved.

The death of Constantine IV., also a famous iconoclast.

Between what he thought and wished as an iconoclast, a reformer, or a reconstructor of foundations and what he was intrusted to say as an editor, he drew the line sharp and clear.

He became a solicitor's clerk on a miserably small pay, and took to lecturing as 'Iconoclast.'

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LEO, the name of six emperors of the East, of which the chief was Leo III., surnamed the Isaurian, born in Isauria; raised to the imperial throne by the army, defeated by sea and land the Saracens who threatened Constantinople; ruled peacefully for nine years, when he headed the ICONOCLAST MOVEMENT (Q. V.), which provoked hostility and led to the revolt of Italy from the Greek empire; d. 741.

heretic 275 occurrences

Here she was shut up from her friends; her gaoler, a crabbed, hard-hearted nun, who treated her with the greatest rigour, regarding her not only as a heretic, but as a hypocrite and out of her senses as well.

When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faith.

And first among themselves, Mr. Blindman, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic.

Of the wonderful heretic, Amenhotep the Fourth, I had barely heardat the most he had been a mere name; the Hittites a mythical race of undetermined habitat; while cuneiform tablets had presented themselves to my mind merely as an uncouth kind of fossil biscuit suited to the digestion of a pre-historic ostrich.

Therefore he was a heretic, like them,a follower of Origen.

He has an excellent humour for an heretic, and in these days made the first Arminian.

"Thou art a heretic," he said affectionately to Adelheid, in whom he felt the interest, to which her youth and beauty, and the great danger they had so lately run in company, very naturally gave birth.

"Thou art an impenitent heretic, but we will hot cast thee off; notwithstanding thy obstinacy and crimes, thou seest that the saints can interest themselves in the behalf of obstinate sinners, or thou and all with thee would have surely been lost.

" "And a heretic," added Peterchen, laughing with all his might, though he uttered a joke which he now repeated for the ninth time.

Every one is acquainted with the fact that judges were found iniquitous enough to condemn Joan of Arc to death by fire as a witch and a heretic.

And while surely every one but a fanatical anti-Christian must allow the greater prophetic worth of the Galilean, who could teach these sublime lessons so that "the common people heard him gladly," it seems difficult to deny to the heretic Jew of the Hague the second rank among the teachers given to the world by that strangely gifted race.

The inscription placed over her head as she stood while the flames were being kindled declared this Joan, who called herself the Maid, to be a liar, a plague, a deceiver of the people, a sorceress, superstitious, a blasphemer of God, presumptuous, a misbeliever in the faith of Christ, a boaster, idolatress, cruel, dissolute, a witch of devils, apostate, schismatic, and heretic.

Turning his head a little, he asked, "Now look a here, Molly; if a man's a heretic, how can he be a Christian?" "There's two kinds of heretics," said Molly, filling her great tea-cup for the fourth time, and holding the teapot so that the last drop of the strong decoction should trickle into the cup; "Christian heretics and haythen heretics.

"Everyone also to beare a faggot of wood before the procession on a certain Sunday at Burford from the Quire doore going out, to the quire doore going in, and once to bear a faggot at the burning of a heretic.

To which Pasquino returns for answer: "Declare that you are an Englishman, and swear that you are a heretic."

'You can do what you like now with the child; it's a Protestant, for all your tricks.' 'Go along, you old heretic bitch!'

Although you are an enemy and a heretic I have only good feeling for you, and I know that the great Chevalier, St. Luc, also regards you with favor.

"Great events sometimes spring from trivial causes," of the truth of this adage, no man is, I think, so great a heretic, as to express any doubtwere such the case, it would be by no means difficult to conjure up a host of evidence, in support of our proposition; but, seeing that "such things are," let us at once to the point.

It was conceivable, indeed, that members of the latter might dispute it and argue with him, or even denounce him for a heretic.

Local superstition long told tales of the fiery portents and miracles by which the heretic soldiery were driven from the sacred precincts which their presence had polluted.

"Thou art of heretic family," answered the pope: "at thy hands I look for martyrdom.

In 1759, the Jesuits had been driven from Portugal by the Marquis of Pombal, King Joseph I.'s all-powerful minister; their goods had been confiscated, and their principal, Malagrida, handed over to the Inquisition, had just been burned as a heretic (Sept. 20, 1761).

One hundred and sixty-three years later, Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Carter, a godly minister of the same faith, "a heretic who is no heretic," stood before the presbytery of Nassau, was invited to remain in the Presbyterian communion, and yet said this of the doctrine of Edwards, as written in the Westminster Confession: "In God's name and Christ's name it is not true.

One hundred and sixty-three years later, Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Carter, a godly minister of the same faith, "a heretic who is no heretic," stood before the presbytery of Nassau, was invited to remain in the Presbyterian communion, and yet said this of the doctrine of Edwards, as written in the Westminster Confession: "In God's name and Christ's name it is not true.

In the time of Franklin's great-great-grandfather, if a person was caught using an English Bible was (were) treated as a heretic.

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