Vulgar words in Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators (Page 1)
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The citizens of Greece in the time of Pericles were given over to two things which were enough to damn any individual and any nation--idleness and superstition.
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Harpers, dancers, buffoons and all the sodden splendor of the East made the nights echo with "shouts, sacrifices, songs and groans."
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The pulpit where he was to speak had been filled with filth, and the skin of an ass tacked over the sacred desk.
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She thought about it more and more and wondered really if God could and would damn a person who just went ahead and did the best he could.
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When we ceased to believe that God was going to damn folks, we left off damning them ourselves.
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It was about this time that Starr King pronounced this classic: "The difference between Universalism and Unitarianism is that Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them; and the Unitarians believe that they are too good to be damned."
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His performances in each of these lines, unfortunately, were not bad enough to damn him; and his work done in fair weather was so much better than he could do in foul that he was caught by the undertow.
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He pooh-poohed the whole affair, and referred to the slaves as a menagerie of lions, tigers, hyenas--a jackass or two--and a host of monkeys, which the fool Abolitionists were trying to turn loose.
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But all of you who believe, as I do, in the right and duty of magistrates to execute the laws, join with me and brand as base hypocrisy the conduct of those who assemble year after year on the Fourth of July, to fight over battles of the Revolution, and yet "damn with faint praise," or load with obloquy, the memory of this man, who shed his blood in defense of life, liberty, and the freedom of the press!