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Therefore, scientists generally have come to recognize that they, no more than ecclesiasts, have been dealing with “ultimate truth.”
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For the power does not reside in the dicast, or senator, or ecclesiast, but in the court, and the senate, and the assembly, of which individual senators, or ecclesiasts, or dicasts, are only parts or members.
Politics Aristotle 2002
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He feels himself allied with the best minds of Europe — kings, philosophers, scientists, and ecclesiasts of all churches.
The Crucible Miller, Arthur 1953
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On the contrary the old Roman law was still so powerful that it was for the most part beyond the control of ecclesiasts.
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The German rulers and the Italian ecclesiasts are absorbed in the struggle for supremacy between pope and emperor.
Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman
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The German rulers and the Italian ecclesiasts are absorbed in the struggle for supremacy between pope and emperor.
Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922
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As time went on and the religious manuscripts written, illuminated, and bound by the monks gave place to the more elaborate productions of a printing age, ecclesiasts were not skilful enough to do the illustrating demanded, and a guild of bookbinders sprang up.
Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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So, though my heart responded to the call, what could I do but adhere to the social laws, more formidable than were ever the majestic canons of the ecclesiasts?
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913
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The three ecclesiasts mourned the past and were hopeless of the future.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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The foreign Franciscan, naturally, remained unmoved by the tale of my many virtues and the quantities of ecclesiasts much higher than himself who were only too glad to know me.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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