...tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious3 voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it1 with a text. Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes...

...tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless...with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts; How many cowards,...

...cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." A friend of Antonio echoes that insight: "In religion, what damned error but some sober brow will bless it...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...

...tainted and corrupt But being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it...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...

...plea so tainted and corrupted, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil; what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it and approve it with a text?"61 This was enough to frighten the peyotists, who organized formally as the Native American Church...

...tainted and corrupt, But, being season 'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, get you gone, be strong and prosperous In this resolve:...friar with speed To Mantua, with my letters to thy lo There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts: How many cowards,...

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

...corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show ofevil? In religion, What damnd error but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding thegrossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark ofvirtue on his outward...

...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...

...MURRAY (ff. ED): f 2. To attest (a thing) with some authority, to corroborate, to affirm. Compare, ' What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text.' — Mer. of Ven. III, ii, 79. MALONE : That he proves the common liar, fame, in his case to be a true...