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Written by the Swedish playwright Paul Weiss, it was titled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade when it was first shown in 1963.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Richard Alleyne 2011
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Persecution is allotted them, and retirement from persecution is allowed them; and then where shall we look for them but in dens and caves of the earth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Persecution is the reigning crying sin of the world; that lying in wickedness itself is set against godliness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Persecution is represented in the parable by the scorching sun, (v. 6); the same sun which warms and cherishes that which was well rooted, withers and burns up that which wanted root.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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There’s really nothing in Persecution and the Art of Writing that lends itself to what you’re saying.
Matthew Yglesias » Accounting Identities and Straussian Economics 2009
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Persecution, that is to say, feeds on itself, gathering a self-perpetuating momentum.
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Now to execute the known Laws of a nation upon those who transgress them, after having first been voluntarily consenting to the making of those Laws, can never be called Persecution, but Justice.
The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church 1909
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The one issue that I think that Mr. Vojir brushed by was "Persecution" #4.
Whipped With A Wet Noodle: The Top Ten HORROR Stories From The Christian Right's Persecution Complex 2010
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No Jordanian woman should fear the prosecution (Ed note: 'Persecution'?) of a male relative.
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"Persecution" which we have already established is utterly fictional.
Archive 2008-03-01 CC 2008
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