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  • Our world is still vindictive, but the all-reaching State of

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Private charity is all-reaching: the "hall" is the dispensary and the general ark of refuge for all county ills, moral, physical and pecuniary, and its help is never thought degrading, like that of the "parish."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • Our world is still vindictive, but the all-reaching State of Utopia will have the strength that begets mercy.

    A Modern Utopia 1906

  • Y: But if they disagree (and must part), Allah will provide abundance for all from His all-reaching bounty: for Allah is He that careth for all and is Wise.

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

  • So powerful and all-reaching was their influence that people were wont to say, "Even a bird on the wing could not escape the Tanuma."

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • She easily saw that they were overworked and unhappy, but she could hardly guess how all-reaching was the regime under which they lived.

    The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

  • As soon as his back was turned the air felt lighter; as soon as the hall door opened to let him in again, the law with its all-reaching 'touch not, taste not, handle not' was upon us again.

    The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

  • Anyhow, if this peace be not an all-reaching as well as a heart-filling peace; if it be not a righteous and a lovely peace, and that in despite of all surrounding and opposing troubles, then it is not the peace of God, for that passeth all understanding: -- so at least say they who profess to know, and I desire to take them at their word.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 George MacDonald 1864

  • Anyhow, if this peace be not an all-reaching as well as a heart-filling peace; if it be not a righteous and a lovely peace, and that in despite of all surrounding and opposing troubles, then it is not the peace of God, for that passeth all understanding: -- so at least say they who profess to know, and I desire to take them at their word.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

  • He whose all-reaching foresight knows what hell is, in all its never-ending anguish, sees afar off, and fathoms the horrors of the lost soul, its weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for ever and for ever; its horrible sense of condemnation and immitigable

    God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious 1861

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