But shou'd the Torys now,who will desert me, Because they find no dry bobs on your Party, Resolve to hiss, as late did Popish Crew, |

Even the wedding ring had already begun to be regarded by the Plymouthers as a relic of Popish corruption and superstition, and was, in many cases, dispensed with, and some time afterwards formally forbidden.

Our forefathers were not ashamed of their beards; but now even the soldier is only allowed to keep his moustache, while our quill-driving masses shave themselves as close as they can; and in proportion to a man's piety he wears less hair, from the young curate who shaves off his whiskers, to the Popish priest who shaves his crown!' 'What do you say, then, to cutting off nuns' hair?'

She had made the good old stock assertion, as in duty bound; but she could not help recollecting that there were several Popish books of devotion at that moment on her table, which seemed to her to patch a gap or two in the Prayer-book.

What a low, material view of love, to fancy that you can cut it up into so many pieces, like a cake, and give to one person one tit-bit, and another to another, as the Popish books would have you believe!

Hush!" When the minister has entered the pulpit at Knox Church there is a moment during which you may bow your head, or, if you consider this popish, you may cover your face with your gloved hand.

We had been in the former some time before we felt quite sure that we were not in a Popish place of worship, so papistical were its aspect and arrangements.

The avowedly Popish cathedral was crowded with worshippers; and, to the shame of Protestantism be it spoken, black and coloured people were there seen intermingled with the whites in the performance of their religious ceremonies!

Leave to Robert Browning Beggars, fleas, and vines; Leave to mournful Ruskin Popish Apennines, Dirty Stones of Venice

Or, if bored with 'High Art,' And such popish stuff, One's poor ear need airing, Snowdon's high enough.

But I beseech you to consider, that your Happiness as Men and Christians exceedingly depends upon your doing all in your Power to support the British Government, and that kind of Christianity which is called the Protestant Religion; and likewise in opposing, with all your Might, the Power of the French, the Delusions of Popish Priests, and all the Rage and Malice of such Indians, as are in the French Interest.

DAN'GERFLELD (Captain), a hired witness in the "Popish Plot"Sir W. Scott, Pe-veril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

But surely there is a point where the most inconsistent man is obliged to stop, if he would escape the character of an absolute weather-cock; and that there are charms and comforts in the Popish creed for one who felt with Dryden, that he had, partly in his practice, and far more in his writings, sinned against the laws of morality and common decency, we readily grant.

[Footnote 8: 'Bologna's walls,' &c.: alluding to a Popish story about the wall of Bologna, on which was an image of the Virgin, being blown up, and falling exactly into its place again.]

There is a treasury of merits in the Fanatic church, as well as in the Popish; and a pennyworth to be had of saintship, honesty, and poetry, for the lewd, the factious, and the blockheads: but the longest chapter in Deuteronomy has not curses enough for an Anti-Bromingham.

William Bedloe (1650-1680) and Titus Oates (1649-1705) were associated as lying informers of the proceedings of the imaginary Popish Plot against Charles II.

The people were distracted with constant alarms of Popish plots for the overthrow of the government.

BRIGHTHELMSTONE (Brighton), books burnt there as Popish, iii.

OPPRESSION AND COUNTER OPPRESSION Effects of the Restoration upon the Ulster PresbyteriansA new Act of UniformityExodus of Presbyterians from IrelandThe Popish plotInsane panicExecution of Archbishop PlunkettSudden reversal of the tideTyrconnel sent as viceroyTerror of Protestant settlersWilliam of Orange in EnglandJames II.

They receive no reward except temporal things; such as quietness of life, abundance of goods, dignity, honor, etc., which we see to be common among the followers of popish religion.

But if it be found the production of a man soured with age and misfortunes, together with the consciousness of past miscarriages; of one, who, in hopes of preferment, was reconciled to the Popish religion; of one wholly prostitute in life and principles, and only an enemy to religion, because it condemns them:

"But the Popish, Eastern, Presbyterian and Jacobite clergy, &c."

"The Popish clergy make very bold with the Three Persons of the Trinity."

"Could they, like the popish priests, add to this a restraint on the press, their business would be done."

In short, between declaiming, between misrepresenting, and falseness, and charging Popish things, and independency huddled together, his whole book is employed.