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Such extracts as the following sufficiently attest the prominence and authority he assigns to the office: 'We ought to regard the bishop as the Lord Himself;' Vindicate '
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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As attendees raised candles and traditional Chinese instruments were played, demonstrators chanted, "Vindicate the student movement of 1989!"
Hong Kong Commemorates Tiananmen Square With Public Vigil 2009
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Vindicate, therefore, Lacedaemonians, the Hellenic law which they have broken; and to us, the victims of its violation, grant the reward merited by our zeal.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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Vindicate his Mission, his Satisfaction, and his Divinity, against all
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Vindicate, therefore, Lacedaemonians, the Hellenic law which they have broken; and to us, the victims of its violation, grant the reward merited by our zeal.
The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866
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Vindicate thine office in all diligence, whether in things carnal or in things spiritual.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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Vindicate always the system of nature, in other and sounder words, the ways of God, while you point out with all faithfulness
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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Vindicate myself one day in your eyes; and I think I should not care
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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'My natural modesty will not permit me, like other apologists, to Vindicate myself in any one particular, the whole charge is so artfully drawn up, that no reasonable person would ever think the better of me, should I justify myself' till doomsday. '
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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County and that upon presenting these Surveys to the proprietors Office Collon: Lee the then Officer and You differed about the Composition and that he would not pass your Deeds, In the first place you are to know that I do not take my self at all concerned to Vindicate
Letter from Robert Carter to John Chelton, [April 6, 1724] 1724
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