The History of the Famous Preacher, Friar Gerund de Campazas: Otherwise Gerund Zotes, Volume 1

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T. Davies, 1772 - Satire, Spanish - 564 pages

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Page 233 - And there appeared another wonder in heaven : and behold a great red dragon, having feven heads and ten horns and feven crowns upon his head. And his tail drew the third part of the ftars of heaven, and did caft them to the earth...
Page 191 - ... more frequently than against those who, at the instigation of the devil, and not having the fear of God before their eyes, do feloniously and maliciously attempt to lessen and impair St.
Page 280 - No ! The Reverend Father Predicador Mayor would not have omitted a tittle of all thefe things, though St. Paul himfelf had ftrenuoufly maintained that they were all, to fay the leaft of •them, fo many evidences of his not having a grain of gravity, a drop of devotion, 4 crumb of confcience, a morfel of marrow, or a pinch of penetration.
Page 120 - ... youngster took great pleasure in hearing and afterwards in imitating them, imprinting most readily on his memory their greatest absurdities ; insomuch that these absurdities only seemed retainable by him ; and that, if by miracle any good thing dropped from them, he had not a faculty to take it.
Page 53 - How good and joyful a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, which ran down unto the beard, even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.
Page 137 - The first, it is plain from Scripture, was a little tiny fellow, almost a dwarf, and the two others any person of judgment conceives to be at least as great and corpulent as the biggest giant on the Day of Corpus. And to think that they did not fill as much space of air as they fill of the mouth, proportione servata, is an idle story.
Page 258 - ... to him, when he could execute them undetected, for he was clever, cunning, and of wonderful dexterity of hand and lightness of foot.
Page 118 - Zotes) for the moft ftupendous name has juft ftruck me that was ever given to man born of a woman, and which fhall be given to my little one.

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