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  • With such, traditions, human inventions, forms, and externals, appear venerable and sacred; and they are mistaken with pertinaceous ignorance for the substance of religion.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • "What an odd, pertinaceous business it seems to have been.

    Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

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