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He moved that they should bind themselves by oath never to separate until they had given a Constitution to France; and all the deputies immediately swore it, save one, who added "Dissentient" to his name, and who was hustled out by a backdoor, to save him from the fury of his colleagues.
Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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School Trustees of the Queen's Roman Catholic Subjects shall be and the same are hereby extended to the Dissentient Schools of the
The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous
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The Irish members insisting upon retaining their old seats below the gangway to the left of the Speaker, there was no room for the Dissentient Liberals to range themselves in their proper quarters on the Opposition side.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880
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Will he be entertained by the Dissentient Gallery-Boys 'Club, and finish up with a supper strictly confined to the upper Circles' Society?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 Various 1876
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Dissentient opinions, accordingly, were expressed as to the cause of their structural peculiarities.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Most sensible men in the Tory and Dissentient Liberal camps have come to see that it is inevitable; and, while they continue to resist it for the sake of what is called consistency, or because they do not yet see in what form it is to be granted, they are disposed to regard its speedy arrival as the best method of retreat from an indefensible position.
Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862
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Be the cause what it may, it is surprising to find that a section commanding so much ability as the group of Dissentient
Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862
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Dissentient priests, on taking an oath of obedience, might conduct their modes of worship and receive their pensions from government.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840
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Dissentient: Because we conceive that this is the first bill of that nature that hath passed, where there was not a divorce first obtained in the spiritual court; which we look upon as an ill precedent, and may be of dangerous consequence in the future.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Where in any Province a System of Separate or Dissentient
The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous
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