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... Reason . Such , then , was the work of this century . And all were engaged in it : writers , artists , noblemen , magistrates , ministers , sovereigns themselves . For a mo- ment only , the new spirit found itself master of society ...
... Reason . Such , then , was the work of this century . And all were engaged in it : writers , artists , noblemen , magistrates , ministers , sovereigns themselves . For a mo- ment only , the new spirit found itself master of society ...
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... reasons of faith or reasons of state , is inconsistent with religious freedom , and contravenes its principles . And on no subject does transgression of the rule on one side more inevitably beget transgression on the other . Great part ...
... reasons of faith or reasons of state , is inconsistent with religious freedom , and contravenes its principles . And on no subject does transgression of the rule on one side more inevitably beget transgression on the other . Great part ...
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... reason which will bear the test of theoretical argument can be given for bishops sitting in the House of Lords ; yet most dispassionate men would be sorry to see them expelled , merely - though the reason is , perhaps , only un ...
... reason which will bear the test of theoretical argument can be given for bishops sitting in the House of Lords ; yet most dispassionate men would be sorry to see them expelled , merely - though the reason is , perhaps , only un ...
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... reason , only for the performance of duties 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 ...
... reason , only for the performance of duties 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 ...
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... reason for politicians , lay or ecclesiastical , to recognise the value of the cunning Italian Æneas Sylvius's maxim , ' Papam Imperatoris et Imperatorem Papæ auxilio indigere ; stultum esse illi nocere , cujus expectes opem . ' But ...
... reason for politicians , lay or ecclesiastical , to recognise the value of the cunning Italian Æneas Sylvius's maxim , ' Papam Imperatoris et Imperatorem Papæ auxilio indigere ; stultum esse illi nocere , cujus expectes opem . ' But ...
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