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... church . His nobility could more easily have forgiven his attacks on their privileges , and his attempts to diminish their importance by pitchforking into the class a herd of insignificant people - civil functionaries , municipal autho ...
... church . His nobility could more easily have forgiven his attacks on their privileges , and his attempts to diminish their importance by pitchforking into the class a herd of insignificant people - civil functionaries , municipal autho ...
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... church . ' These trifles even lost him more of real support than they gained of showy popu- larity ; still more , no doubt , the grim satisfaction with which he gave his subjects , by way of corollary to his maxims , the spectacle of a ...
... church . ' These trifles even lost him more of real support than they gained of showy popu- larity ; still more , no doubt , the grim satisfaction with which he gave his subjects , by way of corollary to his maxims , the spectacle of a ...
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... church and state ; the ordinary popular religion interfered with by the abolition , or discontinuance , of processions , pilgrimages , and the like ; universal religious toleration , or rather equality , established ; education was made ...
... church and state ; the ordinary popular religion interfered with by the abolition , or discontinuance , of processions , pilgrimages , and the like ; universal religious toleration , or rather equality , established ; education was made ...
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... church , through that kind of persecution which is of all others the most bitter ; that , namely , which is carried on by overbear- ing power , not so much contrary to law as beside the law , and in mockery of it ; such persecution as ...
... church , through that kind of persecution which is of all others the most bitter ; that , namely , which is carried on by overbear- ing power , not so much contrary to law as beside the law , and in mockery of it ; such persecution as ...
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... church afterwards recovered in the main that supre- macy of which Joseph had deprived it , the legal , and , generally speaking , the practical , freedom of those who dissent from it has ever since remained secure . There were , no ...
... church afterwards recovered in the main that supre- macy of which Joseph had deprived it , the legal , and , generally speaking , the practical , freedom of those who dissent from it has ever since remained secure . There were , no ...
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Page 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
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