George Bancroft Quote

It never was a prosperous world
Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters;
The custom of their ancestors they slight,
And change their shirts of hair for robes of gold;
Thus luxury and interest rule the church,
Whilst piety and conscience dwell in caves.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


It never was a prosperous world Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters; The custom of their ancestors they slight, And change their...

It never was a prosperous world Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters; The custom of their ancestors they slight, And change their...

It never was a prosperous world Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters; The custom of their ancestors they slight, And change their...

It never was a prosperous world Since priests have interfer'd with temporal matters; The custom of their ancestors they slight, And change their...