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    1. Such superstition, she thought, in these modern days


    2. the foul muck of land and superstition


    3. contemptuous of what he saw as foolish superstition


    4. The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea ; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce


    5. He himself had a certain amount of superstition about him, but he most always maintained an acutely skeptical mind


    6. Brynjolf was not given to superstition and mysticism


    7. The Portuguese carried on the trade both to Africa and the East Indies, without any exclusive companies; and their settlements at Congo, Angola, and Benguela, on the coast of Africa, and at Goa in the East Indies though much depressed by superstition and every sort of bad government, yet bear some resemblance to the colonies of America, and are partly inhabited by Portuguese who have been established there for several generations


    8. Thus did Barrin learn his way about the city, and learned which roads to avoid because of thieves or superstition, and which inns had the best bards and jugglers


    9. The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders


    10. it is highly pernicious, and it has even a natural tendency to pervert the truth, by infusing into it a strong mixture of superstition, folly, and delusion

    11. The teachers of each little sect, finding themselves almost alone, would be obliged to respect those of almost every other sect; and the concessions which they would mutually find in both convenient and agreeable to make one to another, might in time, probably reduce the doctrine of the greater part of them to that pure and rational religion, free from every mixture of absurdity, imposture, or fanaticism, such as wise men have, in all ages of the world, wished to see established ; but such as positive law has, perhaps, never yet established, and probably never will establish in any country ; because, with regard to religion, positive law always has been, and probably always will be, more or less influenced by popular superstition and enthusiasm


    12. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it


    13. The state, by encouraging, that is, by giving entire liberty to all those who, from their own interest, would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing; by all sorts of dramatic representations and exhibitions; would easily dissipate, in the greater part of them, that melancholy and gloomy humour which is almost always the nurse of popular superstition and enthusiasm


    14. In that constitution, the grossest delusions of superstition were supported in such a manner by the private interests of so great a number of people, as put them out of all danger from any assault of human reason; because, though human reason might, perhaps, have been able to unveil, even to the eyes of the common people, some of the delusions of superstition, it could never have dissolved the ties of private interest


    15. There was a superstition that claimed if the Madonna fell then the war would be lost but as long as she stayed in place up there then we would be granted victory


    16. Conversion should not be confused with inherited superstition but some (hidden) knowledge, rather, properly revealed in all its forms


    17. “We won’t have a bad year, you can be sure of that!” she said looking askance at Beth, “because we don’t let superstition rule the business or our lives, do we, darling?” Her name was Caroline Steepleton, Brian’s fiancée


    18. [Those followers who championed this doctrine] were the occasion of many Monophysites turning Catholic…(Other variations) formed the independent churches of the Jacobites (Syrian) and the Armenians…From their national character and superstition, [they have] received variations which are most striking in the religious constitution of the Egyptian Jacobites


    19. Superstition is better than no letter, no faith is wise than most superstitious person, at the very least they open, can communication, speak the truth


    20. The superstitious man put the Buddha on the shelf, they'll never go into the Buddha's mind world, superstition and

    21. Marja’s worries were nothing but superstition, yet the bird frightened her somehow


    22. retaining the superstition of the Jews


    23. Western society developed logic and reason rather than chance or superstition to find the answers


    24. The belief that every human being has a claim to equal treatment before the law, in the nursing home, in the hospital, in the laboratory, and in the eyes of his fellow (human) beings would be trashed as mere religious superstition


    25. Bailey said the "dreadful superstition" about monkeys and witchcraft in some


    26. The older sergeants soon disabused them of that superstition as they goaded them to press and close with the flanks of the fleeing Krocek and Haskell, promising them if they got as close as they wanted, they would be inside Spooky's protective umbrella


    27. 5 And Antiochus seeing him said 6 I would counsel you old man before your tortures begin to taste the pigs's flesh and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head which since you have had so long you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of the Jews


    28. This is very doubtful and accords too much with the Catholic superstition that Mary never had any other children except our Savior


    29. Some say their creation was inspired by ancient superstition and lore


    30. The Jews were captive to tradition and the Gentiles were captive to superstition: both were bound by fear

    31. to deal with; namely superstition and the blind and


    32. superstition, and the most approved nourishment


    33. of God at once the surest medicine against superstition, and the most approved


    34. “It is a superstition and an ungodly thing to believe that an act of a majority binds a minority


    35. Though everyone says to me that my daily offering of water to Sun God is a superstition, this non spiritual thinking of others has not been able to stop me from carrying on with my daily ritual of offering water to Sun God


    36. superstition, a myth, a fallacy will be greatly missed at the time of contemplation


    37. It was a silly superstition, he


    38. Bad enough that you should be disappointed with mankind, but to see this failure in your very son! Who does he think he is trying to bring your magnificence to these maggots who have not yet earned it?! These ignorant barbarians who still sacrifice animals to you (and eat the flesh themselves) as if somehow you might actually be pleased by all this pomp and ceremony! (Stupid ancient superstition mostly perpetuated by Mosheh’s writings


    39. The third fetter, superstition, has been described as including all kinds of


    40. doubt and superstition, and having reaped the harvest and shown the result of

    41. “You have transcended all superstition; you know that a man may find the


    42. of Christians still cling to the superstition that He will come to judge


    43. Why is this so? Do you think its superstition? Or perhaps its a lucky charm? Well, after more than ten years of studying this symbol, there indeed appears more to it than meets the eye


    44. His curiosity in regard to the images was balanced by his superstition


    45. But once and for all be delivered from the superstition that God afflicts man at the behest of the evil one


    46. While he complied with the good in the religion of his fathers, he did not hesitate to disregard man-made traditions of superstition and bondage


    47. He taught reverence free from fear and superstition


    48. 2 Late that evening Jesus gave the united group a memorable talk on "Magic and Superstition


    49. In the long answer to Andrew's question the Master entered upon a thoroughgoing discussion of the whole subject of human superstition


    50. Jesus called this woman, Veronica of Caesarea-Philippi, into his presence to correct two errors which might have lingered in her mind, or which might have persisted in the minds of those who witnessed this healing: He did not want Veronica to go away thinking that her fear in attempting to steal her cure had been honored, or that her superstition in associating the touch of his garment with her healing had been effective











































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