Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!


Letters of Mary Russell Mitford (1872)

Mary Russell Mitford Quotes

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor...

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor...

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor...

Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor...