Part of a writer's job should be to dishearten the happily deceived, to quash the misconceptions of the pharisaical, to lure the hermetic from whatever bolt-holes they've built for themselves—to unsettle and upset.
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The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant guidelines for bias-free writing is a product of pointy-headed wowsers.
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The pharisaical, malefic, and incogitant guidelines for bias-free writing is a product of pointy-headed wowsers.
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Most of the Jews of prior Antiquity, however, had been exiled to Babylon after wars with the Romans, leading to the creation of the Pharisaical Babylonian Talmud. Depending on the time, either a notable Roman or Persian military presence would be noted.
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The sequel to this was An Antidote against the Common Plague of the World (1656) which was dedicated to Oliver Cromwell. This volume centers on Matthew 23, in which the scribes and Pharisees are condemned for degrading God's will and word. Gorton's final published work was Antidote Against Pharisaical Teachers (1656), though he left behind an unpublished manuscript of several hundred pages entitled Exposition upon the Lord's Prayer. Two book-length biographical accounts of Gorton have been published.
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He published: # A sermon on The Defects and Dangers of a Pharisaical Righteousness, Glasgow, 1751; # An Address to the Rational Advocates for the Church of England, by Phileleutherus Tyro (1759); # The Evidence of Reason in Proof of the Immortality of the Soul. Collected from the manuscripts of Mr. Baxter (by J. D.), to which is prefixed a letter from the editor to Dr. Priestley (1779); # and a poetical "Essay on Happiness, in four books", which went through a second edition in 1772, besides tracts and other fugitive pieces.
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Pharisees are for example revealed to be extremely dangerous, continually plotting against Jesus even though he often forgave them; at one point, a Pharisaical plot to steal from the Romans is revealed, and at their trial Jesus, whose reputation for keen wisdom is known to the Romans by this time, is consulted. The Roman centurion is willing to execute the Pharisees because of their attempt to bribe him, yet Jesus says to let them go, after dividing their plunder: one third to Rome, one-third to the centurion's local needs, and one-third to the poor people of the nearby communities, some of whose children had been kidnapped by the Pharisees, to be sold as slaves.
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The retirement of Smith gave Palmer control all but undisputed over the highest comedy. Tribute to his special gifts is involved in his selection for Joseph Surface on the first performance of The School for Scandal, 8 May 1777, a character in which he was by general consent unapproachable. Himself addicted to pleasure, for which he occasionally neglected his theatrical duties, he had a pharisaical way of appealing to the audience, which exactly suited the character, and invariably won him forgiveness. This it was, accompanied by his "nice conduct" of the pocket- handkerchief, that secured him the name of Plausible Jack, and established the fact that he was the only man who could induce the public to believe that his wife brought him offspring every two months.
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