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Letter "B" » bishop
«I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.»
«It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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«For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.»
«For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; / But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; / Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.»
Author: Bible
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«HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered --his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue --itself all coated --uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. --_Biography of Bishop Potter_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Patience and forbearance make a bishop of his reverence.»
«I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop»
«Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot»
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