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" His onset was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror. The wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long... "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
1781
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The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain ...

Andrew Kippis - Great Britain - 744 pages
...with little notice, when they were " aceumulated and expofed together, excited horror : ** the wife and the pious caught the alarm, and the ** nation wondered why it had fo long fuffered irreli*, gion and licentioufnefs to be openly taught at the " public charge. " Nothing now remained...
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The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine, Volume 5

1794 - 644 pages
...fierce and implacable Nonjuror,' but as the fame author remarks, it was from him that « the wife and pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had fo long fufFered irrelijnon and licentioufncfs to be openly taught at the public charge/ The reformation he effected...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 164

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1887 - 616 pages
...passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. The dispute...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 pages
...passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror ; the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the publick charge. Nothing now...
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