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Impious actions without a sober mind, not perturbing ones self.
missxjackie Diary Entry missxjackie 2007
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Impious and ignorant are far more happy than they which are superstitious, no torture like to it, none so continuate, so general, so destructive, so violent.
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Impious and false things has he said even of the virtues of our medicines, as if they were the devices of Satan —
Ivanhoe 2004
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Impious indeed, beyond all impiety, are these men, who assert that the Maker of heaven and earth, the only
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Devils, to punish and torment the Guilty and Impious; as in the Case of
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Impious, abandoned villain, though he was, he said too much when he boasted that he feared neither God nor Devil.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Impious men do not recommend themselves to their communion by iniquity and cruelty towards any description of their fellow-creatures.
Paras. 250-274 1909
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Impious men are endeavoring to transfer our republic to that town in which our ancestors decided that there should be no republic at all, when they resolved that there were but three cities in the whole earth, Carthage, Corinth, and Capua, which could aspire to the power and name of the imperial city.
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Impious heretic, you will have it that Christ suffered pain from the piercing of the nails, that He felt the bitterness of the wound, when they were driven through His hands: why, pray, did not the children fear the flames?
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Flacianism, published his _Antidote (Antidoton) against the Impious and
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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