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  • BOLDUAN: The Army crites Choi for moral or professional dereliction, saying, "You admitted publicly that you are a homosexual, and your actions negatively affected the good order and discipline of the New York Army National Guard."

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2009 2009

  • This is kind of funny and goes to my upcoming post on “Hippy-crites” – for months I have seen post after post upset that the mainstream content companies are taking advantage of everyday people to get new content which they make money from.

    Huge Red Flag at Netscape Michael Arrington 2005

  • November 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm josh turner country music dave heath sheet music coltrane jewish music sponsorship ron crites and country music public domain and music nirmaalfri Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Articles 2004

  • This appointment fails the smell test and will be seen by many as yet another indication that the Harper-crites can't be trusted to protect equality rights.

    Progressive Bloggers Queer-Liberal 2009

  • Hypo - crites often negleft fecret prayer, when they will not negle8; to pray in public.

    Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797

  • In this Church there be mingled many hypo - crites which haue nothing of Chrift but the name and outwardc ftiewe: there be many ambicious, couetous, enuious, cuill fpeakers, fome of vnclcane life: which be fuffred for a time, either becaufc they can not by lawfull order of iudgemec be conuinced, or becaufc thereisnotalway in vre that feucritie of difcipHnc that ought to be.

    The institution of christian religion 1578

  • Spaniards having invaded what they call their owa, had (hrunk to a dilavowal of their attempt and i relaxation of their claims would (till have in* ftigated us to a war for a bleak and barren fpot in the Magellanick ocean, of which no ufe coiUd be made unlefs it were a place of exile for the hypo* crites of patriotifm.

    The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787

  • Perfecution, on the account of religion, is equally wicked and abfurd, beciufe it defeats its own L 7] own end; for, inftead of reconciling the mind to any fee of religious principles, it mull excite the utmoft horror and difguft -, it may make hypo - crites — it cannot make true converts.

    An appeal from the Protestant Association to the people of Great Britain, concerning the probable tendency of the late Act of Parliament in favour of the papists 1779

  • PartL and the form of Godlinefs in fbme, may pro - duce the power pf it in others; but a pattern of propbanenefs, the farther it operates, the worfe, and all the progrefs it can make, is from one wickednefs to another: (b that I fear, as St. Bernard wifh'd for his Feaver again, lb the Church may ere long for her Hypo - crites.

    The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705

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