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Vice, when by imitation of what is incorruptible (for what is really incorruptible she neither has nor can produce) she has thrown around her own actions, as a disguise, the properties of virtue, and qualities which are really excellent, leads captive earthly-minded men, attaching to Virtue her own evil properties.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Are not all people still covetous and earthly-minded, and given to the world, and proud and vain, even such as profess religion?

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

That life will no longer be worldly or in the course of ordinary earthly-minded men.

How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897

How low we have fallen, how earthly-minded we have become, and from what does it all proceed?

My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

But now that she was dead it was as if he had been beloved by an angel, and was only too obtuse, too gross, too earthly-minded to hear the rustle of her wings.

In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

Elsewhere (Re 17: 8; 13: 3), all the earthly-minded ( "they that dwell on the earth") wonder in admiration of the beast.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Teacher in heaven, the crafty, earthly-minded Jacob 'the supplanter' is turned into 'Israel, the prince with God, in whom is no guile.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

It would exist only as a phase of me when I was in a certain mood; and when I was earthly-minded, passionate, or troubled, it would be _no_where.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

Three hours only were accorded to this earthly-minded woman to prepare for death.

Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861

He is a carnal, earthly-minded man, and therefore cannot find enjoyment in such meditations.

Sermons to the Natural Man 1857