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  • They can't all be horrible…… It's the same sort of prejudice that people have toward werewolves…… It's just bigotry, isn't it?†   (source)
  • So you think I'm a narrow-minded American bigot?†   (source)
  • I think this is part of his punishment for that bigoted crap he pulled in class.†   (source)
  • She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted idiot Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage is a sorrow so enervating it could render her immobile.†   (source)
  • Now she lives in a big house in La Canada and quotes cliched bigotry at me for wanting to marry you.†   (source)
  • Bigots.†   (source)
  • When hate is unleashed and bigotry finds a voice, God help us all.†   (source)
  • The late Ray-mond Carver wrote a story, "Cathedral" (1981), about a guy with real hang-ups: included among the many things the narrator is bigoted against are people with disabilities, minorities, those different from himself, and all parts of his wife's past in which he does not share.†   (source)
  • People who can fix things are usually bigots.†   (source)
  • Comets, violins, parades, loneliness, clouds, beards, bigots, lists, flags, earthquakes, despair were all swept up in a scrambled swirling.†   (source)
  • With schizophrenia, there's often bigotry or hyper-religiosity, or both.†   (source)
  • You're lucky he's not as much of a bigot as you are, or I'd complain to the Clave and make the whole pack pay for your behavior.†   (source)
  • Revisions that catered to popular bigotry began appearing.†   (source)
  • Oddly enough, White patients, even the ones in whom I could clearly detect bigotry, were often easier to deal with.†   (source)
  • Not a big one, just an ordinary turnip-sized bigot.†   (source)
  • Although Moody detested Detroit, he found much less bigotry in the metropolitan environment, and he determined that his professional future lay there, in one capacity or another.†   (source)
  • But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described "dissident at large," writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry.†   (source)
  • The bigoted Polish woman who occupied the bunk below me refused to clean, much to Annette's fury.†   (source)
  • Are the car salesmen of Chicago incredible sexists and bigots?†   (source)
  • But no one could completely shield the immigrant children from nativist bigotry.†   (source)
  • He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence.†   (source)
  • He squints to read what's across the room on the credenza: "He who will not listen to reason is a bigot, he who cannot is a fool, he who dares not is a slave.†   (source)
  • He was a racist bigot, but Calloway was also the best chess player I'd ever met.†   (source)
  • Seth was not a bigot like most white people around here.†   (source)
  • Playing out some moronic Bonanza where my thirty-year-old brothers were blindly taking orders from a pontificating, bigoted French Canadian father whose only smarts came with his money and his land.†   (source)
  • I know not how much of what has happened was the result of my husband's instruction, his determination, and how much simply the result of a corrupt and bigoted police force.†   (source)
  • They make fine work of me—fanatic, bigot, perfect cypher, not one word of the language, awkward figure, uncouth dress, no address, no character, cunning hardheaded attorney.†   (source)
  • Pilar thinks Lourdes is bigoted, but what does her daughter know of life?†   (source)
  • 'It's part of my official duty to protect them from harm by fools and bigots,' he snapped.†   (source)
  • O'Hare read this handsome passage out loud: History in her solemn page informs us that the Crusaders were but ignorant and savage men, that their motives were those of bigotry unmitigated, and that their pathway was one of blood and rears.†   (source)
  • They actually consider me a contemptible bigot, Mr. McLean.†   (source)
  • True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.†   (source)
  • Instead I averted my eyes from their bigotry, and I avoided the eyes of my friend because I couldn't stand to face him.†   (source)
  • Are you a w itch bigot?†   (source)
  • Bigot.†   (source)
  • When you're grown up, then you can make up your own mind about religion, which has been responsible for a lot of wars and massacres in his opinion, as well as bigotry and intolerance.†   (source)
  • Enthusiasm for liberty is often infected with narrow-minded bigotry and distrust.†   (source)
  • It was a bigoted Sunni slur for Shia Muslims.†   (source)
  • In your simple, straightforward, bigoted way, Bessie, you've sounded the missing keynote of the whole New Testament.†   (source)
  • I knew that he had no prejudices, but I nevertheless did not want to involve him in any way, since reprisals might be taken against him by bigots or by his associates, who might resent his role as my host once my story became known.†   (source)
  • I always looked forward to these letters, feeling fortunate to have this Southern Lord Chesterfield as an advisor, who so delighted me with his old-fashioned disquisitions upon pride and avarice and ambition, bigotry, political skulduggery, venereal excess and other mortal sins and dangers.†   (source)
  • I'm trying to stop you bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States!†   (source)
  • I knew what she meant by "nice boys"—boys who were not Italian—and the sly knife-thrust of her bigotry infuriated me.†   (source)
  • Stress cultural pride, as modern Irishmen, Jews, or Welshmen in America do, and as for bigotry, the flip side of cultural pride, make laws against it.†   (source)
  • Because it's not just Negroes, but really it's all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.†   (source)
  • A whole civilization destroyed by greedy, righteous bigots.†   (source)
  • It was no longer the voice of the bald man; it was the voice of a woman, bigoted and malicious.   (source)
    bigoted = intolerant and prejudiced
  • Kalyani looked down and smiled, coyly acknowledging her bigotry.†   (source)
  • I squeezed his square-knuckled fist to let him know I wasn't accusing him of bigotry.†   (source)
  • What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions?†   (source)
  • I told people that Walter had overcome what fear, ignorance, and bigotry had done to him.†   (source)
  • He said, "Please, please don't ever call me a bigot."†   (source)
  • And don't, for the sake of John Henry Newman, start worrying over what a bigot you are.†   (source)
  • I haven't really heard a bigoted word from anybody.†   (source)
  • Bigotry, rivalries, and desires to conquer land and people affect nations as well as kings.†   (source)
  • I tell her it's haunted, spooked, that it's the isle of brutes and bigots.†   (source)
  • But public bigotry has since been vastly curtailed.†   (source)
  • I don't think you're a contemptible bigot, sir.†   (source)
  • And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites.†   (source)
  • Even subtle displays of bigotry, if they become public, are now costly.†   (source)
  • BRADY But how can we strike this young man's bigoted opinions from the memory of this community?†   (source)
  • Only a few diehard bigots were left, he said.†   (source)
  • My mother had taught me contempt for bigotry.†   (source)
  • I don't see Merchant working only or even primarily as a product of bigotry, and I will go on reading it, although there are many works by Shakespeare that I like better and return to more regularly.†   (source)
  • You're just a bigot.†   (source)
  • He endlessly chastises fellow clients, lets loose bigoted tirades and maligns Robinson for offering safe harbor to those who cuss, smoke or otherwise violate his sense of civility.†   (source)
  • They were all bigots, weren't they?†   (source)
  • He should have been able to put the day down as a successful one, but it had cost him a great deal not to reveal his disgust at the man's bigotry.†   (source)
  • Too bad he's such a bigot.†   (source)
  • What I would suggest is that we see Shylock's villainy in the context of the difficult and complex situation Shakespeare creates for him, see if he makes sense as an individual and not merely as a type or representative of a hated group, see if the play works independently of whatever bigotry might lie behind it or if it requires that bigotry to function as art.†   (source)
  • He spoke about Walter being pulled away from his family in the prime of his life by lies and bigotry.†   (source)
  • I tried to point that out to you today; I regret to say I used tactics the late George Washington Hill would envy—you're very much like him, except you're a bigot and he's not."†   (source)
  • How do you know he's a bigot?†   (source)
  • I also find, with some regularity, myself asking, How could someone so talented be so blind, so arrogant, so bigoted?†   (source)
  • I sort of weaseled my way around the issue with Shakespeare, claiming that he was somewhat less bigoted than his time; I can make no such claim for Pound.†   (source)
  • "Bigot,' " she read.†   (source)
  • A bigot.†   (source)
  • Though the inspector had no such convenient pulpit for reply, certain trenchant remarks of his on persecution, contempt of authority, bigotry, religious mania, the law of slander, and the probable effects of direct action in opposition to Government sanction achieved a wide circulation.†   (source)
  • If Ayres's study is evidence of conscious discrimination, then the car salesmen of Chicago are either the most outrageous of bigots (which seems unlikely) or so dense that they were oblivious to every one of those clues (equally unlikely).†   (source)
  • As my considerably bigoted father once said, 'Only the Jews with Russian names can make money over here.'†   (source)
  • I saw such a spirit of dogmatism and bigotry in clergy and laity, that if I should be a priest I must take my side, and pronounce as positively as any of them, or never get a parish, or getting it must soon leave it.†   (source)
  • Seth had lost a cousin in World War II, at the hands of his Japanese captors, and relished wallowing in his well-earned bigotry.†   (source)
  • I think you are a very simple bigot.†   (source)
  • My father had been heard to sum up his opinion by declaring that if Angus had any principles they were of such infinite width as to be a menace to the rectitude of the neighbourhood; to which Angus was reputed to have replied that Joseph Strorm was a flinty-souled pedant, and bigoted well beyond reason.†   (source)
  • Current European policy and hostilities have been greatly influenced by Madame de Maintenon's bigotry, the Duchess of Marlborough's petty complaints and the secret plotting of Madame de Pompadour.†   (source)
  • Of all the ideas that Kennedy had thought up to fight bigotry, this campaign was easily the cleverest.†   (source)
  • I am not a bigoted man, Mr. McLean, and I do believe that in a limited number of cases, it is possible for a single individual to rise above his racial origins and actually distinguish himself in ways uncommon to his stock.†   (source)
  • Even the most bigoted idolizers of State authority say the national courts have jurisdiction of maritime causes.†   (source)
  • Even if you are a private citizen, you surely wouldn't want to seem bigoted while appearing in public.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you want to seem clever or kind or good-looking; presumably you don't want to come off as cruel or bigoted.†   (source)
  • The bachelor policeman inevitably turns more and more for friendship to others of his own Jesuitical kind, that is, fellow policemen; and out of such friendships, out of membership in that proud and exclusive club, he draws precisely the confidence and security, almost bigotry, which, in a man with a gun, can be dangerous.†   (source)
  • In Poland and the South the abiding presence of race has created at the same instant cruelty and compassion, bigotry and understanding, enmity and fellowship, exploitation and sacrifice, searing hatred and hopeless love.†   (source)
  • And in the midst of it, the picture of the prejudice and bigotry from which I had just come flashed into my mind, and I heard myself mutter: "My God, how can men do it when there are things like this in the world?"†   (source)
  • HORNBECK "Be-Kind-To-Bigots" Week.†   (source)
  • For a long time he had entertained the idea that I was a good Southerner, he said, a man emancipated, one who had somehow managed to escape the curse of bigotry which history had bequeathed to the region.†   (source)
  • His politics of course were deplorable, situating him I should say about 10 miles to the right of Mussolini, but withal he was what we who originated in the country have always termed a "good ole boy" and I shall miss intensely his hulking, generous albeit bigoted presence as we drove to work.†   (source)
  • Good whites—not the type that is overtly bigoted— urged us to "work, study, lift ourselves up by our bootstraps."†   (source)
  • He knew his religious bigots.†   (source)
  • As we moved toward the door, the three of us, Nathan—looking a bit like a fashionable gambler now in his suit out of an old Vanity Fair—looped his long arm around my shoulder and offered me an apology so straightforward and honorable that I could not help but forgive him his dark insults, his bigoted and wrong-headed slurs and his other transgressions.†   (source)
  • Bigotry is an odd thing.†   (source)
  • He loved his family, he stood up with some courage against the bigotry in the Methodist church, where he was a deacon, and at length had to withdraw because of his remarks on Darwin's theory.†   (source)
  • It was on reputedly disreputable Beale Street in Memphis that I had met the warmest, friendliest person I had ever known, that I discovered that all human beings were not mean and driving, were not bigots like the members of my family.†   (source)
  • It was as though instead of having been subtly slain and corrupted by the ruthless and bigoted man into something beyond his intending and her knowing, she had been hammered stubbornly thinner and thinner like some passive and dully malleable metal, into an attenuation of dumb hopes and frustrated desires now faint and pale as dead ashes.†   (source)
  • He has the face as though an Aztec sculptor had attempted a portrait of Sebastian; he's a learned bigot, a ceremonious barbarian, a snow-bound lama….†   (source)
  • Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.†   (source)
  • He was humble and by no means bigoted.†   (source)
  • The result has been, on the one hand, a general obfuscation of the symbols, and on the other, a god-ridden bigotry such as is unmatched elsewhere in the history of religion.†   (source)
  • Although we have no bigotry on the point, it is our custom at Shangri-La to be moderately truthful, and I can assure you that my statements about the porters were almost correct.†   (source)
  • To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence.†   (source)
  • He neatly deflated the pompous and exposed the ignorant and the bigoted, and he did it in such subtle ways, drawing his victims out by his seemingly courteous interest, that they never were quite certain what had happened until they stood exposed as windy, high flown and slightly ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Thus bigotry and clairvoyance were practically one, only the bigotry was a little slow, for as Joe, descending on his rope, slid like a fast shadow across the open and moonfilled window behind which McEachern lay, McEachern did not at once recognise him or perhaps believe what he saw, even though he could see the very rope itself.†   (source)
  • He had gotten to be as bigoted and hidebound about his politics as a hard-shelled Baptist and phrases like enemies of the people came into his mind without his much criticizing them in any way.†   (source)
  • You know that I am not a bigoted or prejudiced man.†   (source)
  • She knew that Emil was ashamed of Lou and Oscar, because they were bigoted and self-satisfied.†   (source)
  • We are conservative, Mr. Newman, but we are not also bigots.†   (source)
  • Oh! spite of million villains, this makes me a bigot in the fadeless fidelity of man!†   (source)
  • To prudery she added bigotry, a well-assorted lining.†   (source)
  • There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret compartments of bigotry.†   (source)
  • A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous than the asp and the cobra.†   (source)
  • However, Billy's rendering of the matter satisfactorily accounted to these inquirers for the brief commotion, since of all the sections of a ship's company, the forecastlemen, veterans for the most part and bigoted in their sea-prejudices, are the most jealous in resenting territorial encroachments, especially on the part of any of the afterguard, of whom they have but a sorry opinion, chiefly landsmen, never going aloft except to reef or furl the mainsail and in no wise competent to…†   (source)
  • With downcast eyes, so to speak, he accomplished this with a few silent, deft movements; and when he sat down to listen again, it was the last scene of the melodrama that he heard: the final duet of Radames and Aida, sung at the bottom of their crypt, while above their heads bigoted, cruel priests, raising and spreading their hands in the ceremonies of their cult, lifted their voices in a dull murmur.†   (source)
  • At some distance opposite, the outer walls of Sarcophagus College—silent, black, and windowless—threw their four centuries of gloom, bigotry, and decay into the little room she occupied, shutting out the moonlight by night and the sun by day.†   (source)
  • They were rank Tories and bigots, every one of them; there were no conservatives like American conservatives.†   (source)
  • At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy that the priests had forgiven her her monk.†   (source)
  • Bigotry and fanaticism!†   (source)
  • The frantic outcries of bigots could not shake him, but his heart was suddenly filled with melancholy for some special reason and he felt that.†   (source)
  • Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day.†   (source)
  • The hours wore on;—Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.†   (source)
  • "Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!" said Bois-Guilbert, striding up and down the apartment.†   (source)
  • What ineffable misery the bigoted Separatists or Pharisees endured at finding themselves elbowed and laughed at in the procurator's presence in Caesarea by the devotees of Gerizim!†   (source)
  • She has religion, earnest, bigoted:—religion that on both sides the Veil often omits the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments, but substitutes a dozen supplementary ones.†   (source)
  • And he spoke in terms of the strongest indignation of the faithless conduct of the allies towards this dethroned monarch, who, after giving himself generously up to their mercy, was consigned to an ignoble and cruel banishment, while a bigoted Popish rabble was tyrannising over France in his stead.†   (source)
  • Without electricity the air would rot, and without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.†   (source)
  • He respected Sanglier as a brave warrior; and he had far too much of that liberality which is the result of practical knowledge to believe half of what he had heard to his prejudice, for the most bigoted and illiberal on every subject are usually those who know nothing about it; but he could not approve of his selfishness, cold-blooded calculations, and least of all of the manner in which he forgot his "white gifts," to adopt those that were purely "red."†   (source)
  • 'Well, well, ma'am,' said the Doctor cheerfully, 'I am not bigoted to my plans, and I can overturn them myself.†   (source)
  • Binet, a few shopkeepers, two or three publicans, the cure, and finally, Monsieur Tuvache, the mayor, with his two sons, rich, crabbed, obtuse persons, who farmed their own lands and had feasts among themselves, bigoted to boot, and quite unbearable companions.†   (source)
  • [710] Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable, and gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.†   (source)
  • When I attempt to tell him (because if I were he I know very well what I should believe in) he calls me a pampered bigot.†   (source)
  • Thou art condemned to die not a sudden and easy death, such as misery chooses, and despair welcomes, but a slow, wretched, protracted course of torture, suited to what the diabolical bigotry of these men calls thy crime.†   (source)
  • …to the band which keeps the mantle in place, projects a leathern case, square in form; another similar case is tied by a thong to the left arm; the borders of his robe are decorated with deep fringe; and by such signs—the phylacteries, the enlarged borders of the garment, and the savor of intense holiness pervading the whole man—we know him to be a Pharisee, one of an organization (in religion a sect, in politics a party) whose bigotry and power will shortly bring the world to grief.†   (source)
  • The young man was irritated at this bigot fancy; then he nevertheless experienced a certain charm in seeing her, in the middle of a rendezvous, thus lost in her devotions, like an Andalusian marchioness; then he grew bored, for she seemed never coming to an end.†   (source)
  • If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes,[169] why should I not say to him: "Go love thy infant; love thy wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.†   (source)
  • I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.†   (source)
  • A formidable warrior, his thin and severe features retained the soldier's fierceness of expression; an ascetic bigot, they were no less marked by the emaciation of abstinence, and the spiritual pride of the self-satisfied devotee.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said the Templar, "I am, Rebecca, as thou hast spoken me, untaught, untamed—and proud, that, amidst a shoal of empty fools and crafty bigots, I have retained the preeminent fortitude that places me above them.†   (source)
  • Sister Perpetue was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their death agony with prayers mumbled in a rage; was bold, honest, and ruddy.†   (source)
  • —De Bigot," he added to his seneschal, "thou wilt word this our second summons so courteously, as to gratify the pride of these Saxons, and make it impossible for them again to refuse; although, by the bones of Becket, courtesy to them is casting pearls before swine."†   (source)
  • Cuvier, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons flatter Moses.†   (source)
  • We will go to Palestine, where Conrade, Marquis of Montserrat, is my friend—a friend free as myself from the doting scruples which fetter our free-born reason—rather with Saladin will we league ourselves, than endure the scorn of the bigots whom we contemn.†   (source)
  • The senator resumed:— "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.†   (source)
  • Every good quality tends towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak.†   (source)
  • —Not the millions whom her crusaders send to slaughter, can do so much to defend Palestine—not the sabres of the thousands and ten thousands of Saracens can hew their way so deep into that land for which nations are striving, as the strength and policy of me and those brethren, who, in despite of yonder old bigot, will adhere to me in good and evil.†   (source)
  • He had not the usual resource of bigots in that superstitious period, most of whom were wont to atone for the crimes they were guilty of by liberality to the church, stupefying by this means their terrors by the idea of atonement and forgiveness; and although the refuge which success thus purchased, was no more like to the peace of mind which follows on sincere repentance, than the turbid stupefaction procured by opium resembles healthy and natural slumbers, it was still a state of…†   (source)
  • This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D——, wrote to M. Bigot de Preameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic lines: "Expenses of carriage?†   (source)
  • Conrade was better acquainted (perhaps by practice) with the jargon of gallantry, than was his Superior; and he expounded the passage which embarrassed the Grand Master, to be a sort of language used by worldly men towards those whom they loved 'par amours'; but the explanation did not satisfy the bigoted Beaumanoir.†   (source)
  • —Rebecca, if I appear not in these lists I lose fame and rank—lose that which is the breath of my nostrils, the esteem, I mean, in which I am held by my brethren, and the hopes I have of succeeding to that mighty authority, which is now wielded by the bigoted dotard Lucas de Beaumanoir, but of which I should make a different use.†   (source)
  • A coarse white dress, of the simplest form, had been substituted for her Oriental garments; yet there was such an exquisite mixture of courage and resignation in her look, that even in this garb, and with no other ornament than her long black tresses, each eye wept that looked upon her, and the most hardened bigot regretted the fate that had converted a creature so goodly into a vessel of wrath, and a waged slave of the devil.†   (source)
  • Call not coldness of soul, religion; nor put the BIGOT in the place of the CHRISTIAN.†   (source)
  • Besides, as I have said, the Reader is himself conscious of the pleasure which he has received from such composition, composition to which he has peculiarly attached the endearing name of Poetry; and all men feel an habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them: we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.†   (source)
  • Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms.†   (source)
  • Reversals Let that which stood in front go behind, Let that which was behind advance to the front, Let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, Let the old propositions be postponed, Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself, Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself†   (source)
  • …the rush of friend and foe thither, The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty, The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley, The sack of an old city in its time, The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly, Roar, flames, blood, drunkenness, madness, Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands, Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing, The…†   (source)
  • Your daughter is no match for a bigot; He has other schemes to worry about.†   (source)
  • There is actually now a rebellion on foot in this kingdom in favour of the son of that very King James, a professed papist, more bigoted, if possible, than his father, and this carried on by Protestants against a king who hath never in one single instance made the least invasion on our liberties.†   (source)
  • The influence which the bigotry of one female,6 the petulance of another,7 and the cabals of a third,8 had in the contemporary policy, ferments, and pacifications, of a considerable part of Europe, are topics that have been too often descanted upon not to be generally known.†   (source)
  • But it would be uncharitable for us to imagine (as some Papists, abounding with too much ill nature, the only scandal to religion, do) that they will certainly be in a state of damnation after this life; for how can we think it consistent with the mercy and goodness of an infinite Being, to damn those creatures, when he has not furnished them with the light of the gospel? or how can such proud, conceited and cruel bigots, prescribe rules to the justice and mercy of God?†   (source)
  • The most bigoted idolizers of State authority have not thus far shown a disposition to deny the national judiciary the cognizances of maritime causes.†   (source)
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