In fact, the diversity of spiritual tendencies is not less in the Moslim world than within the sphere of Christian influence; but in Islâm, apart from the political schisms of the first centuries, that diversity has not given rise to anything like the division of Christianity into sects.

There is a prophetic saying, related by Tradition, which later generations have generally misunderstood to mean that the Mohammedan community would be split into seventy-three different sects.

The day approaches which shall discompose All earthly sects, the elements shall blend In utter ruin, and with joy shall send Just spirits to their spheres in heaven's repose.

Lamb was at first a Unitarian, but afterwards dropped away from all sects.

When I mentioned that the Bey of Tunis and the Imaum of Muscat had entered into treaties for the suppression of Slavery, the traders observed, "Amongst the Mohammetans are four sects, but the only orthodox sect is that of Morocco.

All distinctions of religious sects and party spirit are laid aside when our hearts become prepared to embrace each other in true Christian love.

What a pity that the sects are so slow to become acquainted with the grand best in each other!

To perpetuate a cold distance between our denomination and other sects, and close the door on church or individualshowever much this is done to usis not Christian Science.

But the workers need not think of using this weapon so long as they are split and divided into sects and groups and crafts.

"The different tribes beneath my sway Four several sects of priests obey; Now tell me which of all the four Is on the path to Heaven's door.

One of the approved and popular forms of penance was a pilgrimage to sacred places,seen equally among degenerate Christian sects in Asia Minor, and among the Mohammedans of Arabia.

why, I was the first founder of the three sects of philosophy, except one of the Peripatetics, who acknowledge Aristotle, I confess, their great grandfather.

Thou art but a child, and there were sects of philosophy, before thou wert born.

There are two sects of idolatrous priests, called Chebeth and Chesmu, who ascend the roof of the palace in the midst of storms, and persuade the people they are so holy, that they can prevent any rain from falling on the roof.

These, for the most part, the several sects of philosophy and religion have introduced.

Thirdly, Affected Obscurity, as in the Peripatetic and other sects of Philosophy. THIRDLY.

Though the Peripatetick philosophy has been most eminent in this way, yet other sects have not been wholly clear of it.

The Catholic and the Protestant religions were left unmolested in the countries where they prevailed, and all religious sects were tolerated.

He established religious liberty, and tolerated all sects but Catholics and Quakers.

All sects and parties sought ascendency rather than the public good; angry and inexperienced, they refused to compromise.

To these sufferings, as is always the case with persecuted sects, calumny was added; and they were falsely charged with denying the Trinity, with disowning the authority of government, and with attempting to debauch the fidelity of the soldiers.

Lucian rallies the Philosophers in his Time, who could not agree whether they should admit Riches into the number of real Goods; the Professors of the Severer Sects threw them quite out, while others as resolutely inserted them.

The poem is divided into twenty-four cantos or sections, written as "Letters" to an imaginary correspondent who had bidden the writer "describe the borough," each dealing with its separate topicprofessions, trades, sects in religion, inns, strolling players, almshouse inhabitants, and so forth.

Besides these bodies, the Baptists and Quakers stand out amid the sects comprised in Nonconformity.

What an infinite advantage the Mussulmans and the Catholics have over many of our more exclusively spiritual sects in the way they keep their religion always by them and never blush for it!

Each white person of either sex was to have some thirty-two acres, and half that quantity for every slave that he should bring.

Dehinc ad sex passuum succedit ibidem propinquans Imperatori discus aureus terra nigerrima plenus.

Copiosus quoque numerus formosorum puerorum, et puellarum, ætatis inter decem et sex decem annos, indutorum torquibus, et cycladibus exauratis, exercentium inter iocos cantus et spectacula, ac seruientium suo Domino prope nutum.

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Apply, stating sex, age, height and price.

The task she had undertaken was a prodigious one, for the sisters she had to rear were, you must understand, vexed with sex instincts of the type of the modern novel, and so in a large measure she failed, even though she sacrificed strength, happiness and even her own love-story in the effort to keep them straight.

Beat, woman and heroine, is so admirable that one fain would know her apart from all this unredeemed welter of sex and selfishness.

The modifications to which I refer are those that confine this impulse to certain individuals of the other sex, whereby the interests of the species are attained.

But if you meet with no impediments, no new causes of doubt, I think your reputation in the eye of the world, >>> though not your happiness, is concerned, that you should be hisand yet I cannot bear that these libertines should be rewarded for their villany with the best of the sex, when the worst of it are too good for them.

All my present hope is, to find some reputable family, or person of my own sex, who is obliged to go beyond sea, or who lives abroad; I care not whether; but if I might choose, in some one of our American colonies never to be heard of more by my relations, whom I have so grievously offended.

Impute not this scheme, my beloved friend, either to dejection on one hand, or to that romantic turn on the other, which we have supposed generally to obtain with our sex, from fifteen to twenty-two: for, be pleased to consider my unhappy situation, in the light in which it really must appear to every considerate person who knows it.

that it were in my power, in mercy to my sex, to look thee first into shame and remorse, and then into death!

I gave them a character of that virago; and intimated, 'that for a head to contrive mischief, and a heart to execute it, she had hardly her equal in her sex.'

Now, Cousin, say I, is your time come; and you will be no longer, I hope, an infidel either to the power or excellence of the sex you have pretended hitherto so much as undervalue; nor a ridiculer or scoffer at an institution which all sober people reverence, and all rakes, sooner or later, are brought to reverence, or to wish they had.

The women seemed moved; for I spoke with great earnestness, though lowand besides, they love to have their sex, and its favours, appear of importance to us.

You that know so much of the sex (I speak it not, however, to your praise) might have known that.

But the whole sex love plottingand plotters too, Jack.

Women, Jack, tacitly acknowledge the inferiority of their sex, in the pride they take to behold a kneeling lover at their feet.

What defence have I against a man, who, go where I will, can turn every one, even of the virtuous of my sex, in his favour?'

They are pleased with a love of the sex that is founded in the knowledge of it.

Yet in this the sex is generally mistaken too; for these sheepish fellows are sly.

How valiant this made me look to the women!The sex love us mettled fellows at their hearts.

She, like the rest of her sex, can be ill or well when she pleases.

"Generally," saith Rhasis, [1053]"the finest wits and most generous spirits, are before other obnoxious to it;" I cannot except any complexion, any condition, sex, or age, but [1054]fools and stoics, which, according to [1055]Synesius, are never troubled with any manner of passion, but as Anacreon's cicada, sine sanguine et dolore; similes fere diis sunt.

These and the like are never produced but by the encounter of two of their kind of different sex.