jesuitically

Wherefore, the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase PARENT OR MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.

Common Sense 2002

Her guest agreed that Mr. Forrest must be a monster, jesuitically, however, reserving the opinion that the monster might be a fabulous one.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

One must know how to speak jesuitically; and, in order to advance, one must be clever in getting one's ideas to walk on crutches.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

One must know how to speak jesuitically; and, in order to advance, one must be clever in getting one's ideas to walk on crutches.

Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910

April; Dumouriez had not yet plunged across the morasses to Cobourg, but was evidently meaning to do it, and our Commissioners were off to arrest him; when what does the Girondin Lasource see good to do, but rise, and jesuitically question and insinuate at great length, whether a main accomplice of Dumouriez had not probably been -- Danton?

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

On his deathbed he adjured his clergy to be true to the cause of hereditary right, and declared that those divines who tried to make out that the oaths might be taken without any departure from the loyal doctrines of the Church of England seemed to him to reason more jesuitically than the

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families; wherefore the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.

Section III 1776

Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families; wherefore the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuitically adopted by the -- and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.

Common Sense 1776

Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families; wherefore the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so and the phrase PARENT or MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.

Common Sense Thomas Paine 1773

Thus your promise of impunity, which began somewhat jesuitically, concludes with the mercy of a Spanish inquisitor.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706