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  • Jesus did not address slavery at all in the Gospels; Saint Paul and Aristotle accepted it; and Jewish and Islamic theologians believed in mercy toward slaves but did not question slavery itself.†  (source)
  • It stretches as tall as the dome on Saint Paul's Cathedral and runs in either direction as far as the eye can see.†  (source)
  • "I don't agree with Saint Paul," she'd told him once: it was in connection with the rule of wearing a hat to church.†  (source)
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  • That's Saint Paul, you know.†  (source)
    Saint Paul = most important of Christian missionaries; author of several books of the New Testament (c. 3-62)
  • She was astonished, too, at the furious invective which he was always launching at the aristocracy, at fashionable life, and 'snobbishness'—"undoubtedly," he would say, "the sin of which Saint Paul is thinking when he speaks of the sin for which there is no forgiveness."†  (source)
  • In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking permission, as a mark of their gratitude for the benefits he had conferred on them, to build a new chantry to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints.†  (source)
  • As I shut it, Saint Paul's, and all the many church-clocks in the City—some leading, some accompanying, some following—struck that hour.†  (source)
  • formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there.†  (source)
  • "I don't agree with Saint Paul," she'd told him once: it was in connection with the rule of wearing a hat to church.†  (source)
  • If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance—literally to astonish his son's weak mind.†  (source)
  • Like Saint Paul.†  (source)
  • The great bell of Saint Paul's was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.†  (source)
  • "That Saint Paul," said Rinaldi.†  (source)
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