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Here is the definition of Tractarianism: "The religious opinions and principles of the founders of the Oxford movement, put forth in a series of 90 pamphlets entitled Tracts for the Times, published at Oxford, England 1833–1841."
Blogs I don't like... Terry Nelson 2007
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Many of their Tracts were the poorest Productions that ever disgraced the Press; without Style, or Wit, or Sense, or Argument.
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"Tracts" with Nicolas Boteler's "Dialogical Discourses," we find that the duties of ship's officers changed hardly at all from the time of the
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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His friends objected to the "Tracts" which were the doing of these free lances.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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I have looked into the 'Tracts' from curiosity and to hear what the world was talking of, and I was disappointed _even_ in the degree of intellectual power displayed in them.
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I have looked into the 'Tracts' from curiosity and to hear what the world was talking of, and I was disappointed even in the degree of intellectual power displayed in them.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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A new edition of my 'Tracts' was wanted, and I prepared to add a Tract on the Undulatory Theory of Light in its utmost extent.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings by Lydia M. Soo
The Master Builders Fenton, James 2000
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'Tracts' in controversy with Dr. Priestley.] [Footnote 29: This observation, it is presumed, alludes to the time when he was 'preaching' Unitarianism.] [Footnote 30: Written in 1805.] [Footnote 31:
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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Tracts of vacant developable private land between Pinewald Road and the parkway are located in the Business B-2 and B-3A areas of the Master Plan.
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