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  • Giovanni has beaten him, and sings to him for his consolation the beautiful aria, "Vedrai carino," which has more than once been set to sacred words, and has become familiar as a church tune, notwithstanding the unsanctity of its original setting.

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

  • So long as it was thus kept secret there seemed a certain incompleteness and unsanctity about even their happy love.

    Mistress and Maid. A Household Story. 1864

  • Hence marriage cannot in any sense be implicated in unsanctity or lowness, so as to be inconsistent with a truly spiritual and holy life; otherwise God, when he introduced woman to man as called to be holy, would have encouraged him to turn aside from his high destination, and Adam would have had not merely the right but in fact also the duty of declining this gift of divine love; the creation of the woman would really have been the first temptation.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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