But who can have any interest in calumniating my master so scandalously?
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Or is it that some secret enemy has been calumniating you, Kirylo Sidorovitch?
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Doeg is among those who have forfeited their portion in the future world by their wickedness (Sanh. x. 1; compare ib. 109b). Doeg is an instance of the evil consequences of calumny, because by calumniating the priests of Nob he lost his own life, and caused the death of Saul, Abimelech, and Abner (Yer. Peah i.
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In 1566 he visited Theodore Beza at Geneva and Heinrich Bullinger at Zurich, and to solicit assistance from the Swiss reformers. It was probably at this time that Wiburn wrote his manuscript description of the State of the Church of England. He was suspected by the English ecclesiastics of calumniating the church, an accusation which rejected, and which in a letter dated 25 Feb. 1567 he asked Bullinger to contradict.
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He also insisted that Maximus, Bishop of Valence, should be tried for his alleged crimes, not by a primate, but by a synod of the bishops of Gaul, and promised to sustain their decision. Boniface supported Augustine in combating Pelagianism forwarding to him two Pelagian letters Boniface had received calumniating Augustine. In recognition of this solicitude Augustine dedicated to Boniface his rejoinder contained in Contra duas Epistolas Pelagianoruin Libri quatuor. He persuaded Emperor Theodosius II to return Illyricum to Western jurisdiction, and defended the rights of the Holy See.
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On 8 October 1559 he preached before the queen at Whitehall, when he urged that Protestant bishops should retain the old temporalities of their sees, so as to live in proper style. Aspersions were cast on his character, and on 2 November 1561 a man did penance at Paul's Cross for calumniating Véron, while on the 23 November Henry Machyn had also publicly to apologise. John Strype describes him as a courageous and eloquent preacher. On 1 March 1562 Véron certified to the Privy Council the accuracy of a translation of a French pamphlet against Catholicism, which there was an idea of publishing in England.
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" The Catholic Telegraph of > Cincinnati in 1853, saying that the "name of 'Irish' has become identified > in the minds of many, with almost every species of outlawry," distinguished > the Irish vices as "not of a deep malignant nature," arising rather from the > "transient burst of undisciplined passion," like "drunk, disorderly, > fighting, etc., not like robbery, cheating, swindling, counterfeiting, > slandering, calumniating, blasphemy, using obscene language, &c.;Potter > (1960), p. 526. 1882 illustration from Puck depicting Irish immigrants as troublemakers, as compared to those of other nationalities The Irish had many humorists of their own, but were scathingly attacked in political cartoons, especially those in Puck magazine from the 1870s to 1900; it was edited by secular Germans who opposed the Catholic Irish in politics.
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