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If they are, Darwinism is mere jesuitism, in attempting to correlate them.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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The jesuitism of this answer revealed such love and such regret, that a man of less firmness than the general would have betrayed his joy in the midst of a peril so novel to him.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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His spirit was communicated to leading men throughout his section, and to many in the West who had emigrated from that section or who had been corrupted by his jesuitism.
Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union of States, and as to the Grounds of Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right. Gentleman of Mississippi 1863
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It was, therefore, necessary to disguise their design under some plausible pretext; and, with characteristic jesuitism, they seized upon philanthrophy for the purpose.
Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union of States, and as to the Grounds of Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right. Gentleman of Mississippi 1863
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So then each one of the different classes employed its own suitable religion, the landholding squires catholic jesuitism or protestant orthodoxy, the liberal and radical bourgeois rationalism, and it makes no difference therefore whether people themselves believe in their respective religions or not.
Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy Friedrich Engels 1857
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But the Jesuits are accused of pushing this doctrine to its remotest consequences, of being its most unhesitating defenders, -- so that jesuitism and expediency are popularly convertible terms.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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There was a jesuitism in this speech, which did not recommend it or its speaker to the Contessa Violante.
A Siren Thomas Adolphus Trollope 1851
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Founded on the substantial rocks of mendicancy and jesuitism, it might again triumph over its rapidly rising rival, the heretic Amsterdam, which had no better basis for its grandeur than religious and political liberty, and uncontrolled access to the ocean.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590a John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Founded on the substantial rocks of mendicancy and jesuitism, it might again triumph over its rapidly rising rival, the heretic Amsterdam, which had no better basis for its grandeur than religious and political liberty, and uncontrolled access to the ocean.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Founded on the substantial rocks of mendicancy and jesuitism, it might again triumph over its rapidly rising rival, the heretic Amsterdam, which had no better basis for its grandeur than religious and political liberty, and uncontrolled access to the ocean.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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