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... according to the same tale , when still a girl , kneeling at the deathbed of her mother , prayed that she might not long survive her . She fancied she heard a voice utter the word ' Three , ' and accepted it joyfully as a presage . But ...
... according to the same tale , when still a girl , kneeling at the deathbed of her mother , prayed that she might not long survive her . She fancied she heard a voice utter the word ' Three , ' and accepted it joyfully as a presage . But ...
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... according to , and subject to , the customs of their church : when it interferes to prescribe or enforce those customs by the secular arm , it is violating the broad principle of religious freedom as fundamentally , though not as ...
... according to , and subject to , the customs of their church : when it interferes to prescribe or enforce those customs by the secular arm , it is violating the broad principle of religious freedom as fundamentally , though not as ...
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... according to reason and not to precedent , the volume of Febronius is entirely destitute . Such as it is , it fell in with a prevailing tendency of the age , and excited a violent though now forgotten con- troversy . Clement XIII ...
... according to reason and not to precedent , the volume of Febronius is entirely destitute . Such as it is , it fell in with a prevailing tendency of the age , and excited a violent though now forgotten con- troversy . Clement XIII ...
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... According , therefore , to our ideas , the Josephine re- forms were erroneous in their basis . They tended to diminish the power of the church over the laity , but only with the view of increasing , proportionally , that of the state ...
... According , therefore , to our ideas , the Josephine re- forms were erroneous in their basis . They tended to diminish the power of the church over the laity , but only with the view of increasing , proportionally , that of the state ...
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... according to Russian computation , are now Catholic , or ' United ' Greek ; of the remainder , the great majority belong to the ' orthodox ' Greek faith : and , although something may be allowed for political conversions , the ...
... according to Russian computation , are now Catholic , or ' United ' Greek ; of the remainder , the great majority belong to the ' orthodox ' Greek faith : and , although something may be allowed for political conversions , the ...
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