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Toleration is an attempt to ease the discomfort on your part and avoid further disruption on their part.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Toleration is an attempt to ease the discomfort on your part and avoid further disruption on their part.
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Toleration is a liberal virtue, perhaps the most important liberal virtue.
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Toleration is an individual value predicated on a functioning state and society that recognizes, permits and protects it.
The Online Candidate Confronts Critical Netroots - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Toleration is everywhere proclaimed, and the country is now decidedly open and inviting.
Letter from Young John Allen to his church Board,December 9, 1868 2008
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I am to deal is commonly called Toleration in Religion, or toleration of several religions.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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They did want something that they called a Toleration; but it was a limited and ill-defined Toleration.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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The word Toleration had been mumbled cautiously within the Assembly, and had made itself heard with some larger liking in Parliament, and still greater applause among the hasty thousands of the Parliamentary soldiers and the populace!
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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An "Act Concerning Religion," also known as the Toleration Act of 1649, recognized a measure of freedom of conscience and was probably the first document protecting the free exercise of religion.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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An "Act Concerning Religion," also known as the Toleration Act of 1649, recognized a measure of freedom of conscience and was probably the first document protecting the free exercise of religion.
Rees on The Early Constitutional History of Maryland Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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