 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...this strong Pythoness, or prophetess, with her sharp, ringing, oracular warnings — "conventionally is not morality ; self-righteousness is not religion...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns" — could be the homely child of a rustic parsonage, the unpretending little girl called Charlotte... | |
 | Holme Lee - 1865 - 278 pages
...Tartuffe" what has been pleaded by a writer of our own time lying under similar condemnation, that " to pluck the mask from the face of the pharisee is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." Fenelon openly supported the piece, applauding Moliere's courage in having unmasked one of the vices... | |
 | Charlotte Brontė - 1872 - 520 pages
...is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed : they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 804 pages
...is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." These words will sufficiently show how she endeavoured to tread in the steps of " the first social... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pages
...is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." These words will sufficiently show how she endeavored to tread in the steps of " the first social regenerator... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." These words will sufficiently show how she endeavoured to tread in the steps of " the first social... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...is not morality, selfrighteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." These words will Sufficiently show how she endeavored to tread in the steps of " the first social regenerator... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 802 pages
...morality, self-righteousncss is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To plnck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns." These words will sufficiently show how she endeavoured to tread in the steps of " the first social... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is...not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.' These words will sufficiently show how she endeavoured to tread in the steps of ' the first social... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 532 pages
...she could stir the hearts of readers throughout the world with the trumpetnote of such a declaration as this:— " Conventionality is not morality ; selfrighteousness...checking the free utterance of our inmost opinions ; nnd let us be thankful that in that heroic band to whom we owe the emancipation nf English thought,... | |
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. 
