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- 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all… — George Herbert
- The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from… — Kevin Hart
- The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the… — Hector Hugh Munro
- Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval… — Goldwin Smith
- Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. — Salman Rushdie
- Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for… — Robert Andrews Millikan
- MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was… — Ambrose Bierce
- I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval… — Werner Herzog
- There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or… — Goldwin Smith
- As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. — Joseph Conrad
- Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry
- The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to… — Emmeline Pankhurst