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• 6. For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• On the principles of expediency, he has been vindicated, and will be vindicated, so long as his cause is advocated by partisan historians, or expediency itself is advocated as a rule of life Sidenote: Policy of Cromwell After the battle of Worcester, Cromwell lost, in a measure, his democratic sympathies, and naturally, in view of the great excesses of the party with which he had been identified. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• But he did not succeed; and Pitt himself, when his cause was advocated by men of a different spirit,--men inflamed by revolutionary principles,--changed his course, and opposed parliamentary reform with more ardor than he had at first advocated it. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• He told me the cause was his social ostracism by the "Blue Bloods." —  Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
• It may, however, occur at any part of the canal in which no stricture exists, if the hand that impels the instrument be not guided by a true knowledge of the form of the urethra; and perhaps the accident happening from this cause is the more general rule of the two Illustration] Plate 59.--Figure 8 Fig. —  Surgical Anatomy

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