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All thynges in common, as long as that state doeth remain emong the wicked, a most happie state coumpted, a wished state to idell persones, but it
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Bee it so, but mariage is a painfull life, it forceth euery one to trauaile, to vpholde and maintaine his state, I commende not the idell life, neither a life occupied to no vertuous ende.
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They are a "gredy sort of sturdy idell holy theues" habitually guilty of every conceivable form of vice and profligacy.
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These be they that have made an hundredth thousand idell hores in your realme.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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There were no more "holy idell theves", holding the land of England and plundering the poor.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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The petitioner suggests that the king shall "tie these holy idell theves to the cartes, to be whipped naked about every market towne till they will fall to laboure!"
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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And whate do al these gredy sort of sturdy, idell, holy theves?
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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There were no more "holy idell theves", holding the land of England and plundering the poor.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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These be they that have made an hundredth thousand idell hores in your realme.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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The petitioner suggests that the king shall "tie these holy idell theves to the cartes, to be whipped naked about every market towne till they will fall to laboure!"
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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