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but at that time equally respectable slave
He had served on peaceful merchantmen, and in the less peaceful, but at that time equally respectable, slave-trade.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

became accustomed to the enforced religion saw
The thoughtless multitude gradually became accustomed to the enforced religion, saw in the merciless oppression of Judaism its dissolution, and changing pretence into reality, came near to lending themselves to the notion that God had, through Mahomet, superseded His revelation on Mount Sinai by another in Mecca, and almost believed that He had chosen the Arabs instead of the Jews.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

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