Good Words

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 138, 7 May 1885, Page 3

Good Words

The Chri«teliurch Press in a verjr ehetfr lfttt articW^OD th* , monetary -position of "th* "^iloiiy ttkjsV— Bankruptcf on anytfeiA!£ Uk* a larfce scale w decidedly rare. M^y'^i* Wh 'etfip and ' abundant; Aoy*m» n *f eEaracfer who can" offer' a" peasoaab^f^arantee of kfepmff his arrtifgrtnenttoeffd tibmit'to usufyi iMVooir it hi deniahd at a fair rate of wfcfttv Tne * niiemptojred" agitation has djdd'i^atwtil ' J deatli r , \ and would 1 have' siStfe^b^t for the iatrijjues of politicians aiitf ' iW. ! *»eakne«« <^ov«rniaeot. I««lm^if P*opl« di«l not talk so much abb^tliie^hiTd ' time* J an onkophisticated otifca+bf.Vr&iM'iot nolioe that thetitneii •ri 4»riieolaiH^ ! Irard. New Zealand has j£4serriWe f bad n ami abroad, especial ljr aj^JLiSmt»XmJm^m shiSwi^ereto •^MTt to a cnmblimg policy and to. reck - SPg^iMloW ;V ; WiFwita'iu'/nef'Wn ISb.^^thW / » r ifttfe: J ir no i^iuii'd

It nae often been alleged by Freethinkers that the weight of evidence goes to show that England's greatest genius, William Shakespeare, was not a believer in the Christian religion. We notice in an exchange an interesting paragraph on Shakepeare'a use of Biblical quotations, which runs as follows : —Bishop Wordsw< rh, in the " Shakespeare and the Bible," finds in the poet more than ' 550 Biblical quotation*, allanions, re- | ferences, and sentiments. " Hamlet" alone contains about 80, "Richard III," i nearly 50, "Henry V." and " Itich- ' ard II," about 40 each. Shakespeare quotes from 51 of tb« Biblical books H»d not one of his 37 plnys is without a Scriptural reference. Genesis furnishes the poet with 31 quotations or allusions. . the Psalms with 59, Proverbs with 35, Isaiah with 21, Maihew with 60, Luke with 33, and Roman* with 23.