article of religion
Example Sentences
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In their case they do not even have the sustaining thought of its being an article of religion, so they are to be complimented the more.
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Claude A. Shepperson
No man made himself more agreeable in his own house and at his own table than Lord Strathern usually did, for hospitality was with him an article of religion.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
The commissioners were also empowered to press the king on the article of religion, and to recommend to him the Scottish model of ecclesiastic worship and discipline.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
Emily knew but one article of religion, and that bade her preserve, if need be, at the cost of life, the purity of her soul.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
His judgment, indeed, of Pitt always seemed to me much warped by that adoration of Fox which in the early years of the century was almost an article of religion in Whig circles.
From Lord John Russell by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
