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Palestine was a civilized country, and the Hebrews were a great people; and I consider the precedent set by our blessed Lord is a command to be followed in all time, and that his appearance in Judea is tantamount to his saying to his apostles, 'go and preach me and my gospel to all _civilized_ people.'"

Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Their communication with these wretches, who disgraced the term civilized, corrupted their morals, and did not improve their knowledge, taught them wants, without teaching them how to supply them, except by theft.

The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous

He insists that people who want change should adopt what he calls a civilized and decent behavior and participate in parliamentary and presidential elections.

Yemen's President Offers Reforms in Bid to Calm Growing Turmoil 2011

He insists that people who want change should adopt what he calls a civilized and decent behavior and participate in parliamentary and presidential elections.

Yemen's President Offers Reforms in Bid to Calm Growing Turmoil 2011

They evidently hung out there for most of what we know as civilized history, yeah right, finally made the jump across the Atlantic at the end of the 19th Century, settled in Rochester, NY.

Mama, Mama...I'm Obama...and so are you! 2008

I mean, you can't -- if you're going to be a nation in -- what we call a civilized nation and go around just sinking indiscriminately any ship that comes within any distance of international waters, I think you're going to have to fight America.

A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 2002

AMANPOUR: Now while leaders and commentators and analysts are generally saying that a state of war has been declared against the United States and against what they call civilized humanity, they're saying that it is important Jack Straw's saying to keep a cool head.

CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2001 2001

I may safely prophesy that if the time ever comes when those nations which we call civilized give over fighting, then even the red Indians may be persuaded to follow their example.

At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear Kirk Munroe 1890

From these premises, I have seen fit to inquire into the relative merits of the three religions practiced by what we call the civilized nations, as they affect man morally, physically, and mentally.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

Wall, Ralph had been in the unbroken silences of nature so long, that the clack, and crash, and clamor of what we call civilized life almost crazed him.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881