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Or if one is found to be unreasonable, unjust and oppressive, it is better and more christian-like, they claim, to endure hardness, submitting under protest, than by force, which the
Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott
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Young and Thompson made similar declarations of their intention to get another press about the same time, with which they have been often charged, and it seems thought best not to hazard a denial in the book -- therefore no other certificate but the one relating to Child's has been procured -- And the judge's conduct would have been more christian-like, had he written a letter exculpating the editor of the
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Robbery, in mere Wantonness continu'd the Persecution, repeating every now and then these christian-like, and sensible Expressions in the Ragings of his Fury, G-- dd -- mn you, when you go to Hell, I wish G-- d would d-- mn me, that I might follow you with the
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In revivals the church comes together in such a christian-like manner that the influence upon sinners is wonderful.
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Page 77 future be conducted in an orderly and christian-like manner, and that we may have aid and witnesses to the same. '
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He wore but one face to his hearers, and a more christian-like countenance we never saw.
One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina, Johnson Olive 1886
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I take this opportunity of expressing my heart-felt thanks for the kind and christian-like treatment my wife and boy experienced from you and the nurses.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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As I do not wish to frighten your horses, or their riders, I shall postpone waiting upon you until six o'clock, when I hope to have subsided into a more christian-like resemblance to my fellow-creatures.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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He is christened by the name of 'Derwent,' -- a sort of sneaking affection you see for the poetical and novelist, which I disguised to myself under the show, that my brothers had so many children Johns, Jameses, Georges, &c. &c., that a handsome christian-like name was not to be had except by encroaching on the names of my little nephews.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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What am I bringing, after all, to oppose the laboured researches of Drs. Lardner, Paley, Priestley, and others, as well as the pertinent observations of my worthy friend who has so long borne with me, and obliged me with his friendly and christian-like aid on this subject?
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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