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Christians Would Show Sense If They Dispatched These Argumentative Scotists And Pigheaded Ockhamists And Undefeated Albertists Along With The Whole Regiment Of Sophists To Fight The Turks And Saracens Instead Of Sending Those Armies Of Dull-witted Soldiers With Whom They've Long Been Carrying On War With No Result.

It Hardly Needs Explaining At Length, I Think, How Much Authority Or Beauty Is Added To Style By The Timely Use Of Proverbs. In The First Place Who Does Not See What Dignity They Confer On Style By Their Antiquity Alone?... And So To Interweave Adages Deftly And Appropriately Is To Make The Language As A Whole Glitter With Sparkles From Antiquity, Please Us With The Colours Of The Art Of Rhetoric, Gleam With Jewel-like Words Of Wisdom, And Charm Us With Titbits Of Wit And Humour.

Amongst The Learned The Lawyers Claim First Place, The Most Self-satisfied Class Of People, As They Roll Their Rock Of Sisyphus And String Together Six Hundred Laws In The Same Breath, No Matter Whether Relevant Or Not, Piling Up Opinion On Opinion And Gloss On Gloss To Make Their Profession Seem The Most Difficult Of All. Anything Which Causes Trouble Has Special Merit In Their Eyes.

Almost All Christians Being Wretchedly Enslaved To Blindness And Ignorance, Which The Priests Are So Far From Preventing Or Removing, That They Blacken The Darkness, And Promote The Delusion: Wisely Foreseeing That The People (like Cows, Which Never Give Down Their Milk So Well As When They Are Gently Stroked), Would Part With Less If They Knew More.

Bidden Or Unbidden, God Is Present.