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Not that there are no fine things in his sacred music; only they are rare, and the spirit of the whole is utterly undevotional.
Haydn Runciman, John F 1908
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Discussing the general question of religion, he speaks of the Japanese as "essentially undevotional," but he guards against the inference that they are therefore specially immoral.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Not that there are no fine things in his sacred music; only they are rare, and the spirit of the whole is utterly undevotional.
Haydn John F. Runciman 1891
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"Say everything I say;" and bang would come the switch on some poor boy's undevotional head.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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"Say everything I say;" and bang would come the switch on some poor boy's undevotional head.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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"Say everything I say;" and bang would come the switch on some poor boy's undevotional head.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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The prayer, without being intended, was formal, unimpressive, and undevotional; the singing was languid; but we expected that the sermon would arouse the inattentive, and invigorate the dull.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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The prayer, without being intended, was formal, unimpressive, and undevotional; the singing was languid; but we expected that the sermon would arouse the inattentive, and invigorate the dull.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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a voluntary, and the vicar and curate marched in at the end of a procession of little surpliced country boys, whose boots made a very undevotional clatter over the brasses and flagstones.
The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895
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