 Thou shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two? No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency: Swear not at all; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse: At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy...  The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary - Page 292by Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 440 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1895 - 368 pages
...chord of the grand major. Like Eudyard Kipling he began his troubles with the ten commandments — Thou shalt have one God only ; who Would be at the...graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency : At church on Sunday to attend Will serve to keep the world thy friend: Thou shalt not steal ; an... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1862 - 486 pages
...not seen." As a neat and effective bit of satire, we copy " THE LATEST DECALOGUE. " Thou shall hare one God only ; who Would be at the expense of two ? No graven images may be Worshipped, save in the currency : Swear not at all ; since for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse : * The... | |
 | 1863 - 530 pages
...our author's conscientious self-sacrifice gave him a perfect right to utter. 'THE LATEST DECALOGUE. Thou shalt have one God only ; who Would be at the...images may be Worshipped, except the currency ; Swear uot at all ; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse. At church on Sunday to attend Will serve... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...conscientious self-sacrifice gave him a perfect right to utter : — " THE LATEST DECALOGUE. " Thou slialt have one God only ; who Would be at the expense of two ? No graven images may bo Worshipped, except the currency ; • Wo hnve always regretted tho presence of one Wtwo lines in... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1885 - 514 pages
...and mock-religion with bitter sarcasm. The most powerful example of this is The Latest Decalogue. " Thou shalt have one God only ¡ who Would be at the...graven images may be Worshipped except the currency ¡ * * * * « * * * Thou shalt not steal, an empty feat When it's so lucrative to cheat. Bear not false... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1869 - 628 pages
...risen.' Here, again, is one of his pieces of ironical satire, entitled ' The Latest Decalogue :' — ' Thou shalt have one God only ; who Would be at the...images may be Worshipped, except the currency : Swear Swear not at all; for, for thy curse Thine enemy is none the worse : At church on Sunday to attend... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 520 pages
...the hindmost, O ! Ti rol de rol, ti rol de ro, The devil take the hindmost, 0 ! THE LATEST DECALOGUE. THOU shalt have one God only; who Would be at the expense of two 1 No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency : Swear not at all ; for, for thy curse Thine... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...fully knowNot till then — how much I owe. • Robert Murray MeCheyne. 743. DECALO&UE, The World's, Thou shalt have one God only ; who Would be at the expense of two Î No graven images may be Worshipped, save in the currency : Swear not at all ; since for thy curse... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 848 pages
...mood in " The Latest Dialogue : " "Thou shall have one God only, who Wonld be at the expense of twof No graven Images may be Worshipped— except the currency ; Swear not at all, for, for thy cnrse Thine enemy Is none the worse ; At chnrch on Sunday to attend, Will serve to keep the world thy... | |
 | 1874 - 692 pages
...snake of a different class, — Alas ! 'Tie the venomous snake in the glass! THE MODERN DECALOGUE. Thou shalt have one God only— who Would be at the expense of two ? No graven images may be Worshiped— except the currency ; Swear not at all, for, by thy curse, Thine enemy is none the worse... | |
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