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I walked along the Embankment and saw the pitiful wretches, men, women and sometimes children, clad in filthy rags, starved white and frozen blue, soaked in winter rains and shivering in winter winds, homeless, hopeless, unheeded by the doctors of divinity, unpreserved by Gibson's "Preservative".
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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Realize that of the work from which this "valuable observation" is quoted, there are at least two volumes, the second volume containing not less than 757 pages I Realize that in Gibson's "Preservative" there are not less than ten volumes of such writing!
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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As I write, our Congress is voting billions and tens of billions of dollars, and a million of the best of our young manhood are being taken from their homes -- because in 1910 the mind of England was occupied with Dean Goode "On Eucharist", and the ten volumes of Gibson's "Preservative".
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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In May of 1717, convocation met and the Lower House immediately adopted an unanimous report condemning the "Preservative" and the sermon.
Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921
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I walked along the Embankment and saw the pitiful wretches, men, women and sometimes children, clad in filthy rags, starved white and frozen blue, soaked in winter rains and shivering in winter winds, homeless, hopeless, unheeded by the doctors of divinity, unpreserved by Gibson's "Preservative".
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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Realize that in Gibson's "Preservative" there are not less than ten volumes of such writing!
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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This work is in one folio volume, and all I can ascertain of its authorship is that it was _not_ written by Bishop Gibson, of "Preservative" fame.
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History, "is, by a fine irony, entitled Bullock's" Preservative "
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Gibson's "Preservative", vol. N, Chap II) "One great point for which our divines have contended, in opposition to
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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See also Archbishop Ware in Gibson's "Preservative", vol X, Chap II) "One great point for which our divines have contended, in opposition to Romish errors, has been the reality of that presence of Christ's Body and Blood to the soul of the believer which is affected through the operation of the Holy Spirit notwithstanding the absence of that Body and Blood in Heaven.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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