 For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox...  Hudibras: Poëme - Seite 20von Samuel Butler - 1757 - 365 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 Seiten
...true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew 5 Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversy by 10 Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows, and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 Seiten
...Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 Seiten
...beaten, and handled in such lines as these against those who would by force make people good : — Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1842 - 588 Seiten
...thus speaks ofthe party when in power:— "Those errant saints, whom all men grant, To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all conlrovursies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 402 Seiten
...passions, but perhaps incapable of an act of premeditated treachery. • • ABBOTSFORD, 1st August 1830. Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks.... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 Seiten
...Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn . crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant: Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...Presbyterian true blew, For he was of that stubborn Crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their Faith upon The holy text of Pike and Gun, Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery, And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolick Blows and Knocks,... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 Seiten
...Murther") recognizably the same as that in Butler's lines on the Presbyterian true-blue errant saints: Such as do build their Faith upon The holy Text of Pike and Gun; Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery; And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolick Blows and Knocks.... | |
 | Salomon Ludwig Steinheim - 444 Seiten
...Buttler,. der Dichter des Hudibras , und bezeichnete solche Disputatoren mit den Worten : Such äs do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun, And prove their doctrines orthodox By apostolic blows or knooks. das im Deutschen etwa so klingen würde:... | |
 | Bernard Crick - 1993 - 272 Seiten
...crew of errant saints *, as caricatured long ago by Samuel Butler in Hudibras, the puritan knight: Such as do build their Faith upon The Holy Text of Pike and Gun, Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery, And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolic Blows and Knocks;... | |
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