zeals

In all my 52 years, I have never seen so many politicians running on the basis of the zeals of religious beliefs, or either plugging for their

AC360° Exclusive: Palin’s former Pastor speaks 2008

As for the observation that Machiavel hath, that the jealousy of sects, doth much extinguish the memory of things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him lay, to extinguish all heathen antiquities; I do not find that those zeals do any great effects, nor last long; as it appeared in the succession of Sabinian, who did revive the former antiquities.

The Essays 2007

Insolent zeals, that do decry good works and rely only upon faith, take not away merit: for, depending upon the efficacy of their faith, they enforce the condition of God, and in

Religio Medici 2007

There are, questionless, both in Greek, Roman, and African churches, solemnities and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeals do make a

Religio Medici 2007

Yes, zeal without knowledge, I said — like most other zeals — if there were no objections that struck him at once, there were none.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you would once use our hearts, whereby we might express some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves for ever perfect.

The Life of Timon of Athens 2004

No other study of literary sources has so deeply probed the apocalyptic zeals and furious mystiques that inspired the opposing sides in the American Civil War.

Gone With the Wind Woodward, C. Vann 1974

Insolent, zeals, [137] that do decry good Works and rely onely upon

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

He, so endlessly speculatory, so full of imaginative enthusiasms and riotous intuitions and troubled zeals concerning humanity, lost in a beneficent swoon of unconsciousness!

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you would once use our hearts, whereby we might express some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves for ever perfect.

Act I. Scene II. Timon of Athens 1914