...young; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Shenstone. TEXT. IN religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text. Shakspere. We expect your next Should be no comment, but a text, To tell how modern breasts are vext....

...with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow...approve it with a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"17 Jesus must also have found sentiments expressed in other psalms to be contrary to acceptable...

...when Bassanio chooses the right casket: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?...with a text Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? (III.ii.75-80) These lines concentrate for us the full context in which the play's action occurs, the...

...having secured a station, to which he knew so many had aspired. CHAPTER XII The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? Merchant of Venice Jane entered upon the duties of her new vocation with more energy and interest than...

...can be misapplied. In The Merchant of Venice, Bassanio reflects on the prevalence of law subverted: "In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt / But, being...with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil?" (3.2.75-77). Written materials become a means of subverting righteousness in The Devil's Law-Case:...

...all know that isolated verses fit with anything. Shakespeare put it well in the Merchant of Venice: "In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow...a text, hiding the grossness with fair ornament?" The rationalistic method of determining truth cannot be distinguished in principle at all from liberalism,...

...chapter. Let us get behind the hoax that we too may partake of "the tree of knowledge." 3 The Serpent In religion what damned error but some sober brow will bless it, and approve it with a text. SHAKESPEARE. Asa molder of religious thought, the third chapter of Genesis has been, perhaps, the greatest...

...Bassanio who oppugn the law: So may the outward shows be least themselves, The world is still deceiv'd with ornament In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,...with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? (m, ii, 73-7) Portia's judgement is brilliant because she demonstrates that equity cuts through the...

...world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 75 But being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? 80 There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards,...

...thinking about this frightful and cruel mutilation upon an innocent and helpless infant when he said, "In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text Nor is this ritual performance of blind superstition 6 Galatians 5, v. 2. without its tragic results....