"Saintly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Voltaire and Paine wrote A Discourse on Freethinking. His name was Anthony Collins, and in a certain sense he was the father of English Freethought. He was a man of exemplary life and manners, yet the saintly Bishop Berkeley said he "deserved to be denied the common benefit of air and water." One of Collins's antagonists was the famous Dr. Bentley; and although Collins was a man of fortune, the ridiculous calumny was started that he sought and obtained Bentley's assistance in adversity. ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote
... myself, "did that saintly lunatic produce that masterpiece which but for M. Cavalli I should never ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... ocean waters of her sweet labors followed the flag of the saintly Red Cross through ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... we call them Fate. Thou saidst well, Honain. Most subtle Sadducee! The saintly blood flowed in my fathers' veins, and they did nothing; but I have an arm formed to wield a sceptre, and I will ...
— Alroy - The Prince Of The Captivity • Benjamin Disraeli
... skies. During all the time that the painter worked in the cloisters at the history of Jesus Christ, the prior kept by his side and presented to him the precious powder in a bag which he never quitted. Pietro took from it, under the saintly man's eyes, the quantity he needed, and dipped his brush, loaded with color, in a cupful of water, before rubbing the wall with it. He used in that manner a great quantity of the powder. And the good father, seeing his bag getting thinner, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
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