It is not so long ago, as years are reckoned, that a scientist in a physical or chemical laboratory was popularly regarded as a magician engaged in unlawful pursuits, or as in impious converse ...
Here, Darwin borrows a term from the Book of Genesis, "breathed." In later editions, he adds "by the Creator" to show there was nothing impious in his vision of nature.
Not only would the vast majority of his readership find his visionary slogan ridiculous--"We recognize but one race, THE HUMAN RACE"--they would find it grossly evil, implying the impious horror of ...
At the annual Al Smith dinner, Dolan suffused the impious Trump in the pious glow of Catholic charities. Dolan looked on with a doting expression as Trump made his usual degrading, scatological ...
The discovery of the Magdala Stone, as the artifact has come to be called, struck a death blow to the once fashionable notion that Galileans were impious hillbillies detached from Israel’s ...
Burns sent this song to Mrs. Dunlop in February 1788. The Anna in question is Miss Anne Stewart, daughter of John Stewart of East Craigs; she had captured the heart of Burns' friend Alexander ...
I adore you, whom the majority of mankind rejected and despised. I adore you, whom the impious incessantly offend by their sacrileges and blasphemies. I adore you, who are grieved by the coldness ...
Essays in Honor of Carolyn Valone (Italica Press, 2015) (Article) Cynthia Stollhans, “The Pious Act of an Impious Woman: The Courtesan Fiammetta as Art Patron inRenaissance Rome, “Katherine McIver and ...