"This doth not repel a fornicator, reject a drunkard, resist a proud fellow, turn away an idolater, but entertains all, communicates itself to all."

His conversion to the cause of Islam is momentous, because it deprived the idolaters of their chief means of vituperation and ensured the gradual dying down of the fire of abuse.

There are others, fewer in number, it is true, but scarcely less to be pitied, who exceed this enforced servility in the most abject fashion of voluntary adulation; who flatter, persuade, and bring rich tribute to this smiling Moloch, only waiting his own time to turn upon and destroy his idolaters.

And woe be to him who drives this confiding idolater back upon her technical obligations!

Judas had left behind him at Jerusalem, when he and Simon went forth to fight the idolaters, a garrison of two thousand men under the command of Joseph and Azarias, leaders of the people, with the strict command to remain in the city until he should return.

In Cyprian's time it was much controverted between him and Demetrius an idolater, who should be the cause of those present calamities.

They satisfy, it would seem, in perfection, that mysterious instinct of devotionthat inborn craving to look upward and adore, which, let false philosophy say what it will, proves the most benighted idolater to be a man, and not a brutea spirit, and not a merely natural thing.

I here first saw idolaters, of whom there are many sects in the east.

" Probably most people will think that the passage in question deserves a very slight fraction of the praise bestowed upon it; but the criticism, like most of Johnson's, has a meaning which might be worth examining abstractedly from the special application which shocks the idolaters of Shakspeare.

You will find idolaters enough to dispute your road, and you can guide your flock as the Lord directs you.