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Peace December 28. 1779 of the famous Duke of that name, but probably grown more Philosophical at least less catholick than his
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The designation of the said "unsectarian" religion as the "ancient catholick" betrays the attempt to oppose this religion of "Humanity" to the Roman Catholic as the only true, genuine, and originally Catholic.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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[Conn], a catholick priest, who turned protestant, being seized by some of Lord Seaforth's people, and detained prisoner in the island of Herries several years; he was fed with bread and water, and lodged in a house where he was exposed to the rains and cold.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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At last, the Christmastide of the year 1672 being at hand, his majesty besought Lord Arundel and Sir Thomas (now Lord) Clifford to persuade the duke to take the sacrament with him, "and make him sensible of the prejudice it would do to both of them should he forbear so to do, by giving the world so much reason to believe he was a catholick."
Royalty Restored 1883
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Declaration by the chiefs of the royal and catholick army of La Vendée.
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She died with some fortitude, but would have nothing to do with the protestant clergy at the place of execution, saying, she would die in the catholick religion wherein she was bred and born, willing only to have her confessor: at last she lifted the crucifix and kissed it.
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He was plundered in the usurpation, turned Roman catholick, and died in obscurity.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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The hind, at one time, is afraid to drink at the common brook, because she may be worried; but, walking home with the panther, talks by the way of the Nicene fathers, and at last declares herself to be the catholick church.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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The term "Roman catholick is," he says, "one of the pope's bulls; it is particular universal, or catholick schismatick."
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746
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Church catholick, represented by _the woman in heaven_, apostatized, and became divided into two corrupt Churches, represented by the _whore of
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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