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To attain her ends Madame Bovary had to oust them all, and she even succeeded in very cleverly baffling the intrigues of a port-butcher backed up by the priests.
This refusal to take any refreshment seemed to him the most odious hypocrisy; all priests tippled on the sly, and were trying to bring back the days of the tithe.
I, if I were the Government, I'd have the priests bled once a month.
And I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely opposed, moreover, to all physical laws, which prove to us, by the way, that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them."
"Ah! always busy at what?Reading novels, bad books, works against religion, and in which they mock at priests in speeches taken from Voltaire.
No doubt the priests understand progress in another fashion.
The priests know the importance of it, they who have introduced aromatics into all their ceremonies.
"I've known priests who put on ordinary clothes to go and see dancers kicking about."
Homais, as was due to his principles, compared priests to ravens attracted by the odour of death.
Then Homais congratulated him on not being exposed, like other people, to the loss of a beloved companion; whence there followed a discussion on the celibacy of priests.
This success emboldened him, and henceforth there was no longer a dog run over, a barn burnt down, a woman beaten in the parish, of which he did not immediately inform the public, guided always by the love of progress and the hate of priests.
This young cleric was sent from Besancon, some years ago, to keep an eye upon the abbe Chelan and certain parish priests of the district.
Today we see priests at forty drawing stipends of a hundred thousand francs, that is to say three times as much as the famous divisional commanders under Napoleon.
This was at M. Chelan's; at a dinner party of priests, to whom the good cure had introduced him as an educational prodigy, he found himself uttering frenzied praise of Napoleon.
Four and twenty parish priests had been collected to represent the original chapter of Bray-le-Haut which prior to 1789 had consisted of four and twenty canons.
Having spent three quarters of an hour in deploring the youthfulness of the Bishop, the priests decided that it would be a good thing if their Dean were to go and inform His Lordship that the King was on his way, and that it was time they were in the choir.
No one had been admitted to the tiny ante-chapel save the twenty-four girls, the two priests and Julien.
'So this is adultery!' he said to himself ...'Can it be possible that those rascally priests are right after all?
Such is the will of heaven, to show life as it is to young priests, and to inspire in them a disgust with the world and its pomps.''And it is to me that you make these fine speeches'--the abbe Pirard was furious.
At that moment, the nasal chant of the leading priests in the procession rang through the church; the procession was returning.
You are unaware of the tyranny that weighs upon us poor provincials, and especially upon priests who are not on good terms with the Jesuits.
Bonaparte's priests and nobles drive him out again.''Ah!
The nobles and priests preferred to return to the old edition, but they have not the iron hand that they need to bring it before the public.'
'The priests, whom Napoleon brought back with his Concordat, instead of treating them as the State treats doctors, lawyers, astronomers, of regarding them merely as citizens, without inquiring into the trade by which they earn their living.
Next to the priests, it is the minor country nobles that have annoyed me most, and forced me to turn Liberal.'
He made a vow that he would never abandon his mistress's children, but would give up everything to protect them, should the impertinences of the priests give us a Republic and lead to persecutions of the nobility.
However,' M. Pirard added, 'we are priests, for she will take you for one; on that footing, she regards us as lackeys necessary to her salvation.'
And with those four letters K-I-N-G, go the priests and the gentlemen.
'Fifty thousand priests repeat the same words on the day indicated by their leaders, and the people, who, after all, furnish the soldiers, will be more stirred by the voice of their priests than by all the cheap poems in the world. .
At the first threat of war, the Minister of Finance writes to his agents that there is no more money except for the parish priests.
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