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In part, the vogue for atheistic tracts reflects the talents of the tractarians in question.
Mass-Market Atheism 2008
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In part, the vogue for atheistic tracts reflects the talents of the tractarians in question.
Mass-Market Atheism 2008
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A visit to Nuneham (April 12) and thence to Oxford brought him into the centre of the tractarians.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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Mr. Gladstone's dislike and distrust of the intrusion not only of the rude secular arm, but of anything temporal into the sphere of spiritual things, had been marked enough in the old days of battle at Oxford between the tractarians and the heads, though it was less manifest in the Gorham case.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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Institution; and, though he hated 'enthusiasm' in dissenters, evangelicals, and tractarians, and kept religion strictly in its place -- a place well outside of practical politics -- managed to preach a wholesome, commonplace morality in terms of Christian theology.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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Yet the tractarians passed lightly over all these problems, to exercise themselves and others with disputations on points which to most laymen of their time appeared comparatively trivial.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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And surely -- in lands of Bibles, Bible-readers, missionaries, and tractarians -- this is reversing the Divine precept of
Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862
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Puseyites and moderate tractarians, and finally the Newmanites and moderate Romanisers. [
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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