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John Calvin
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    "He could have," he declared, "demolished Newton, Calvin or even John Locke as a logician."  (source)
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    Martin Luther deleted the Apocrypha from the Reformation's Bible and later Calvin declared that the Apocrypha absolutely must not serve as the basis for convictions in matters of faith.  (source)
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    Nor was Wesley a great theologian, in the tradition of, say, John Calvin or Martin Luther.  (source)
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    Calvin is sitting still now, staring at Dene mess with the recording equipment.†  (source)
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    The end had to come sometime; his father in his nightclothes at the top of the stairs, explanations that did not explain, hastily improvised fictions that were forever tripping him up, his upstairs room and its horrible yellow wallpaper, the creaking bureau with the greasy plush collarbox, and over his painted wooden bed the pictures of George Washington and John Calvin, and the framed motto, "Feed my Lambs," which had been worked in red worsted by his mother.  (source)
    John Calvin = arguably the greatest theological thinker of the Reformation
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    Into his little brother Calvin's cradle.†  (source)
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    He cracked himself up, though I wasn't sure whether it was Calvin's high jinks or my own making him so goofy.†  (source)
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    We're going to cover the Greeks and Romans, Middle Ages, Renaissance Italy, and I'm p-planning a chart, the Min-Minoans way high, Calvin down low, Sir Walter Raleigh, up; Carlyle, stinks; modern science, stand-still.†  (source)
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    Just then Calvin Sperling, who was Commissioner of Agriculture, came in with a couple of other fellows.†  (source)
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    A spiritual descendant in the direct line from Wycliff, Huss, Luther, Calvin; an Evangelical of the Evangelicals, a Conversionist, a man of Apostolic simplicity in life and thought, he had in his raw youth made up his mind once for all in the deeper questions of existence, and admitted no further reasoning on them thenceforward.†  (source)
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    Calvin seizes Socinius by the hair.†  (source)
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    A definition which tho' savoring of Calvinism, by no means involves Calvin's dogmas as to total mankind.†  (source)
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    When he went to sleep it was with the lights turned on in his bedroom; partly because of his old timidity, and partly so that, if he should wake in the night, there would be no wretched moment of doubt, no horrible suspicion of yellow wallpaper, or of Washington and Calvin above his bed.  (source)
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    "Most peculiar moron I've ever met," Calvin said.  (source)
    Calvin = a name in this novel
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    Fox called enthusiastically, and Lodge and Calvin high-fived in the back.  (source)
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    I thought I was Calvin F. Jones.  (source)
    Calvin = a character in this novel
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    Early Sunday morning, Calvin had received a call from his boss.  (source)
    Calvin = a name in this novel
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    The guest list 49 included Bianca Jagger and Calvin Klein.†  (source)
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    Teddy, a kindergartner back then, sat in my bedroom, pulling the Calvin and Hobbes books down from the shelves and pretending to read them.†  (source)
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    They were all sons of unemployed miners, including Pooky's son, Calvin.  (source)
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    Noah stared out into the rain, looking more like a Calvin Klein underwear model than a down-and-out foster kid.†  (source)
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    The Light Brigade sat to the left of her: in their early and middle thirties, they devoted most of their free time to the Amanuensis Club, bridge, and getting one-up on each other in the matter of electrical appliances: John says ...Calvin says it's the ...kidneys, but Allen took me off fried things ...when I got caught in that zipper I like to have never ...wonder what on earth makes her think she can get away with it ...poor thing, if I were in her place I'd take ...shock treatments, that's what she had.  (source)
    Calvin = a character in this novel
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    This was the belt holding up your Calvin Klein jeans?†  (source)
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    CALVIN STOPES AND HIS SIXTEEN SEXOPHONISTS.  (source)
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    A disturbing Calvin Klein billboard was brightly lit up down on the street.†  (source)
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    During the summer of 1853, Professor Calvin Stowe, Mrs. Stowe's husband, wrote: "The drama of Uncle Tom has been going on in the National Theatre of New York all summer with most unparalleled success."  (source)
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