Ambition begat simony simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
Quotes about simony (3 Quotes)
The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries this is what I would have a woman know and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.