All 9 Uses of
doctrine
in
John Adams by McCullough
- Contrary to basic military doctrine, Washington had divided his forces between Manhattan and Long Island.†
Subsection 1.3.2 *
- So to a considerable degree Adams was preaching what had become accepted doctrine at home.†
Subsection 2.7.4
- That political parties were an evil that could bring the ruination of republican government was doctrine he, with others, had long accepted and espoused.†
Subsection 3.8.3
- As containing the true doctrine of popular infallibility, from which it would be heretical to depart in one single point?†
Subsection 3.8.3
- In the National Gazette, Freneau warned that "plain American republicans" stood to "be overwhelmed by those monarchical writers on Davila, etc.," who were spreading "their poisoned doctrines throughout this blessed continent."†
Subsection 3.8.3
- Jefferson had earlier sent Adams a "Syllabus" he had prepared on the merit of the doctrines of Jesus, and a discussion of religion had since filled much of their correspondence.†
Subsection 3.11.4
- The doctrine of human equality is founded entirely in the Christian doctrine that we are all children of the same Father, all accountable to Him for our conduct to one another, all equally bound to respect each other's self love.†
Subsection 3.12.1
- The doctrine of human equality is founded entirely in the Christian doctrine that we are all children of the same Father, all accountable to Him for our conduct to one another, all equally bound to respect each other's self love.†
Subsection 3.12.1
- Your heart is too full of all the generous and kindly affections for you ever to acquire such a cold and selfish doctrine.†
Subsection 3.12.3
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group