"The prodigious stupid Bigottry of the People also was irksome to me; I thought there was something in it very sordid, the entire Empire the Priests have over both the Souls and Bodies of the People, gave me a Specimen of that Meanness of Spirit which is no where else to be seen but in Italy, especially in the City of Rome."
— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bell, J. Osborn, W. Taylor
Date
1720
Metaphor
"The prodigious stupid Bigottry of the People also was irksome to me; I thought there was something in it very sordid, the entire Empire the Priests have over both the Souls and Bodies of the People, gave me a Specimen of that Meanness of Spirit which is no where else to be seen but in Italy, especially in the City of Rome."
Metaphor in Context
The Particulars related however, may lead the Reader of these Sheets to a View of what gave me a particular Disgust at this pleasant Part of the World, as they pretend to call it, and made me quit the Place sooner than Travellers use to do that come thither to satisfy their Curiosity.
The prodigious stupid Bigottry of the People also was irksome to me; I thought there was something in it very sordid, the entire Empire the Priests have over both the Souls and Bodies of the People, gave me a Specimen of that Meanness of Spirit which is no where else to be seen but in Italy, especially in the City of Rome.
The prodigious stupid Bigottry of the People also was irksome to me; I thought there was something in it very sordid, the entire Empire the Priests have over both the Souls and Bodies of the People, gave me a Specimen of that Meanness of Spirit which is no where else to be seen but in Italy, especially in the City of Rome.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "empire" and "soul" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1720, 1750, 1784, 1792).
See Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier: or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England; From the Year 1632, to the Year 1648. Written Threescore Years ago by an English Gentleman (London: Printed for A. Bell, J. Osborn, W. Taylor, 1720). <Link to ESTC>
See Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier: or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England; From the Year 1632, to the Year 1648. Written Threescore Years ago by an English Gentleman (London: Printed for A. Bell, J. Osborn, W. Taylor, 1720). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
08/11/2004
Date of Review
06/08/2010
