Showing posts with label Francis Atterbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Atterbury. Show all posts

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Prosperity corrupts


 Their manners wax more and more corrupt, in proportion as their blessings abound.

-- Francis Atterbury

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Appartions, and visions, and legends, oh my!


 
  Apparitions, visions, and intercourses of all kinds between the dead and the living, are the frequent and familiar embellishments of the legends of the Romish church.

-- Bishop Francis Atterbury

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

All's fair in love and war

 
 
 
 
A just war may be prosecuted after a very unjust manner; by perfidious breaches of our word, by inhuman cruelties, and by assassinations.

-- Francis Atterbury 1662-1732