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preached in their Hearing Every Day
An "extra" of the News Letter says that "Sermons were preached in their Hearing Every Day, And Prayers made daily with them.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

Principle in the Heart even declare
And though any might pretend that the outward Creation doth of itself, without any supernatural or saving Principle in the Heart, even declare to the natural Man that there is a God; yet what would such a Knowledge avail, if it did not also communicate to me what the Will of God is, and how I shall do that which is acceptable to him?
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

Preached in their hearing Every Day
There were Sermons Preached in their hearing Every Day; And Prayers daily made with them.
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

produced is the Honorable Ebenezer D
One of the ablest diplomats the Negro race has produced is the Honorable Ebenezer D. Bassett, for nearly nine years the Resident Minister and Consul-General from the United States to Hayti.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

powerful illusions that have ever deceived
Certainly if he and the rest of its advocates should fail utterly in this, the heresy will yet have established for itself a memorial in history, as one of the most powerful illusions that have ever deceived both priests and people.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

prince if they hunt every day
They believe they have discharged all the duty of a prince if they hunt every day, keep a stable of fine horses, sell dignities and commanderies, and invent new ways of draining the citizens' purses and bringing it into their own exchequer; but under such dainty new-found names that though the thing be most unjust in itself, it carries yet some face of equity; adding to this some little sweet'nings that whatever happens, they may be secure of the common people.
— from The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

political ideas that has ever dawned
All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wide propaganda of this the most creative and hopeful of political ideas that has ever dawned upon the consciousness of mankind.
— from In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

princes including the higher ecclesiastical dignitaries
The imperial Diet was composed of the seven electors, the lesser princes (including the higher ecclesiastical dignitaries, such as bishops and abbots), and representatives of the free cities, grouped in three separate houses.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

place in their house each day
It is necessary that a pan of water should be place in their house each day for them to wash in, and that a large lump of bay-salt should likewise be kept there.
— from Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it by Miss Coulton


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