Among the various sciences which curiosity had induced him to explore, He neglected not that which by most is esteemed impious, and by many chimerical.
Without caring that people could hear her she asked herself aloud what horrible sinAmaranta had committed to make her prefer an impious death to the shame of a confession.
From the daily papers to the latest economic treatise, from the pulpit to the House of Commons, this conclusion is reiterated and re-stated till it appears positively impious to question it.
In short She seemed a mighty capricious Being: But whether She prayed or cursed, whether She was impious or devout, She always contrived to terrify her Auditors out of their senses.
Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there — coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.
'Oh! cease, Matilda! That scoffing tone, that bold and impious language, is horrible in every mouth, but most so in a Woman's. Let us drop a conversation which excites no other sentiments than horror and disgust.
Yet we must either allow these impious conclusions, or treat with contempt every promise to restore health to a diseased body by supernatural means, or to foretell, the incidents that can only be foreseen by God.