None but the most accurst of villains could abuse such goodness.
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Yet these blameless persons are treated as accurst and hated like mortal sin!
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Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies.
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Be then his Love accurst, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe.
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Once on a time He lived among men, preached, wrought miracles, suffered and died on the accurst tree.
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He had no other place than near the gallows, where he had so often buried the hanged and the accurst.
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Each in its place is seen to be good and worthy, but when each devours the other both are accurst.
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Who deserts his father's race, seeks the black blood to debase, which thro' his own veins doth chase, he be accurst!
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It was said that he conjured gold and jewels out of the unholy flames he kindled, and was accurst of God and the church.
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Air (David) "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" :77. Symphony: Dead march :Elegy on the death of Saul and Jonathan :78. Chorus "Mourn, Israel, mourn" :79.
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Sirhind was for this reason the accurst city in the eyes of the Sikhs. Mobilized under the flag of Banda Singh Bahadur after the death of Guru Gobind Singh in November 1708, they made a fierce attack upon Sirhind. The Mughal army was routed and Wazir Khan killed in the battle of Chappar Chiri fought on 12 May 1710. Sirhind was occupied by the Sikhs two days later, and Bhai Baj Singh was appointed governor.
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A 17th-century Calvinist print depicting Pelagius: The caption says: "Accurst Pelagius, with what false pretence Durst thou excuse Man's foul Concupiscence, Or cry down Sin Originall, or that The Love of GOD did Man predestinate." For Pelagius, "grace" consisted of the gift of free will, the Law of Moses, and the teachings of Jesus.Stephen J. Duffy, Stephen J., The Dynamics of Grace: Perspectives in Theological Anthropology, Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1993 With these, a person would be able to perceive the moral course of action and follow it. Prayer, fasting, and asceticism supported the will to do good.
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They conferred prestige on the monastery that possessed them, and the monks were not inclined to let them out of their sight. On occasion monasteries tried to secure their possession by freighting their precious manuscripts with curses.” One oft-quoted example of a book curse, purportedly from a Barcelona monastery, is actually fictional, taken from the 1909 hoax The Old Librarian's Almanack: > And what Condemnation shall befit the accurst Wretch (for he cannot justly > claim the title of Man) who pilfers and purloins for his own selfish ends > such a precious article as a Book? I am reminded of the Warning display'd in > the Library of the Popish Monastery of San Pedro at Barcelona.
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