"Zealot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his deposition, was spent in obscurity; nor did his successor in the bishoprick, subsequent to the reestablishment of Episcopacy at the Restoration,—Bishop Honeyman,—close his days more happily. He was struck in the arm by the bullet which the zealot Mitchell had intended for Archbishop Sharp; and the shattered bone never healed; "for, though he lived some years after," says Burnet, "they were forced to lay open the wound every year, for an exfoliation;" and his life was eventually shortened by his sufferings. All seemed comfortable ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... see farther on the wrath of Francis against Brother Philip, a Zealot of the Poor Ladies, who had accepted this privilege in his absence. His attitude was so firm that other documents of the same nature granted by Ugolini at the same epoch were not indorsed by the ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier
... through the revelation of Jesus Christ. (13)For ye heard of my conduct formerly in Judaism; that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and was destroying it, (14)and pressed forward in Judaism beyond many companions of the same age in my nation, being more exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... giving them strength and daring; he substituted zeal in the cause for saintliness of life as the price of salvation; and he developed the organised discipline which Arjun had initiated. He was, however, a military adventurer rather than an enthusiastic zealot, and fought either for or against the Muhammadan empire as the hope of immediate gain dictated. His policy was followed by his two successors; and under Teg Bahadur the Sikhs degenerated into little better than a band of plundering marauders, whose internal ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... to his entreaties, police and all, we followed him into the street, where, displaying a histrionic ability which was truly French, he proceeded to reconstruct and rehearse his great adventure with the enthusiasm of a zealot. ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... his appeals to Allah, he felt totally at a loss to know what to do for the material benefit of the zealot. He was afraid that he would die from exhaustion. He was relieved when Abdul and the bearers came to his assistance. Abdul soon persuaded the man to drink some of the water which he had brought in a cup. As he did so, he noticed with satisfaction that the saint's head was resting on Michael's ...
— There was a King in Egypt • Norma Lorimer
... many plays, far too numerous even to catalogue, that scarify the puritans and their zealot tribe, The Cheats (1662), by Wilson, and Sir Robert Howard's The Committee (1662), which long kept the stage, and, in a modified form, The Honest Thieves, was seen as late as the second half of the nineteenth century, are pre-eminently the best. Both possess ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn
... of them was the colleague who had volunteered to accuse him? Dr. Faussett's share in the matter is intelligible; hating the movement in all its parts, he struck with the vehemence of a mediaeval zealot. But that men like Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Ogilvie, one of them reputed to be a theologian, the other one of the shrewdest and most cautious of men, and in ordinary matters one of the most conscientious and ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church
... attacks and rebuffs that he was called upon to endure, and his entire inability to see any other cause than his own saved him from the discouragements that must certainly have broken a man more sensitive than himself. He exhibited at times some of the obduracy of the zealot and martyr; at others he displayed unexpected good sense in protesting against extremes of action that he thought unjust or unwise. He was honest and indefatigable in the pursuit of what he believed to be his duty, and was ill-requited ...
— The Fathers of New England - A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths • Charles M. Andrews |
