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apostate
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  • When apostates are executed in the Muslim world, it is usually done by non-governmental groups operating with impunity from the government.
  • In the eyes of the Muslim extremists, they were apostates.†   (source)
  • The Greenfield Gazette called him an apostate "associated with the assassins of his father's character.†   (source)
  • Tom Paine told the President that he was "treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public...The world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or imposter; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any."†   (source)
  • Then, in the line that caused the stir, Jefferson wrote: It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to those heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.†   (source)
  • Charles Sumner, who would be elevated to the Senate upon his departure, enrolled the name of Webster on "the dark list of apostates.†   (source)
  • Ha-ha—I'm awfully glad you have made an apostate of me all the same!†   (source)
  • It was a volume of Gibbon, and she read the chapter dealing with the reign of Julian the Apostate.†   (source)
  • So spake the apostate Angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair.†   (source)
  • And you will not have the apostate!†   (source)
  • Thus, beginning with the fifteenth century, where our story finds us, Paris had already outgrown the three concentric circles of walls which, from the time of Julian the Apostate, existed, so to speak, in germ in the Grand-Châtelet and the Petit-Châtelet.†   (source)
  • At the head of the Pont aux Changeurs, behind which one beheld the Seine foaming beneath the wheels of the Pont aux Meuniers, there was the Chalelet, no longer a Roman tower, as under Julian the Apostate, but a feudal tower of the thirteenth century, and of a stone so hard that the pickaxe could not break away so much as the thickness of the fist in a space of three hours; there was the rich square bell tower of Saint—†   (source)
  • belong to the apostate!†   (source)
  • Here is idolatry even without a mask: And he who can calmly hear, and digest such doctrine, hath forfeited his claim to rationality an apostate from the order of manhood; and ought to be considered as one, who hath not only given up the proper dignity of man, but sunk himself beneath the rank of animals, and contemptibly crawl through the world like a worm.†   (source)
  • Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.†   (source)
  • In the present age men are not very ready to die in defence of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; and there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.†   (source)
  • So spake the fervent Angel; but his zeal
    None seconded, as out of season judged,
    Or singular and rash: Whereat rejoiced
    The Apostate, and, more haughty, thus replied.†   (source)
  • Of No Effect Upon An Apostate   (source)
  • By which it appears, that upon a Christian, that should become an Apostate, in a place where the Civill Power did persecute, or not assist the Church, the effect of Excommunication had nothing in it, neither of dammage in this world, nor of terrour: Not of terrour, because of their unbeleef; nor of dammage, because they returned thereby into the favour of the world; and in the world to come, were to be in no worse estate, then they which never had beleeved.†   (source)
  • Easily the proud attempt
    Of Spirits apostate, and their counsels vain,
    Thou hast repelled; while impiously they thought
    Thee to diminish, and from thee withdraw
    The number of thy worshippers.†   (source)
  • High in the midst, exalted as a God,
    The Apostate in his sun-bright chariot sat,
    Idol of majesty divine, enclosed
    With flaming Cherubim, and golden shields;
    Then lighted from his gorgeous throne, for now
    'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
    A dreadful interval, and front to front
    Presented stood in terrible array
    Of hideous length: Before the cloudy van,
    On the rough edge of battle ere it joined,
    Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
    Came towering, armed in adamant and gold;
    Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stood
    Among the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,
    And thus his own undaunted heart explores.†   (source)
  • So spake th' apostate Angel, though in pain,
    Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair;
    And him thus answered soon his bold compeer:—
    "O Prince, O Chief of many throned Powers
    That led th' embattled Seraphim to war
    Under thy conduct, and, in dreadful deeds
    Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King,
    And put to proof his high supremacy,
    Whethe†   (source)
  • Apostate!†   (source)
  • Parson Steve, apostates' creed!†   (source)
  • There may be some hot-headed Papists led by their priests to engage in this desperate cause, and think it a holy war; but that Protestants, that are members of the Church of England, should be such apostates, such felos de se, I cannot believe it; no, no, young man, unacquainted as I am with what has past in the world for these last thirty years, I cannot be so imposed upon as to credit so foolish a tale; but I see you have a mind to sport with my ignorance.†   (source)
  • Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael,
    The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarned
    Adam, by dire example, to beware
    Apostasy, by what befel in Heaven
    To those apostates; lest the like befall
    In Paradise to Adam or his race,
    Charged not to touch the interdicted tree,
    If they transgress, and slight that sole command,
    So easily obeyed amid the choice
    Of all tastes else to please their appetite,
    Though wandering.†   (source)
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