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  • This disposition, inflamed by prejudice and partisanry, has led to injustice and delusion.

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • Your chosen subject rises above the valley of partisanry where we old wheel-horses plod -- stinging each other in the dust, as the poet finely says.

    Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • This disposition inflamed by prejudice and partisanry has led to injustice and delusion.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

  • And I shouldn't even need to point out the blatant hypocrisy of blindly defending your party that is putting partisanry ahead of what's best for the American people.

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  • I shall not here protest against a partisanry that, for the first time in our history, in time of peace, has stamped with the great seal of our government a stigma upon the people of a great and loyal section; though I gratefully remember that the great dead soldier, who held the helm of State for the eight stormiest years of reconstruction, never found need for such a step; and though there is no personal sacrifice I would not make to remove this cruel and unjust imputation on my people from the archives of my country!

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • I shall not here protest against a partisanry that, for the first time in our history, in time of peace, has stamped with the great seal of our government a stigma upon the people of a great and loyal section; though I gratefully remember that the great dead soldier, who held the helm of State for the eight stormiest years of reconstruction, never found need for such a step; and though there is no personal sacrifice I would not make to remove this cruel and unjust imputation on my people from the archives of my country!

    Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

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