pharisee

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"That's all very well, Micky," Dick had replied with a remonstrating bellow of a laugh, "but I'm not enough of a pharisee for that, you know, for I'm no total abstainer myself."

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.

This temper, and its opposite, are exemplified in the pharisee and publican, who went up to the temple to pray.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew

The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.

From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria

But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

The self-applauding bird, the peacock see:— Mark what a sumptuous pharisee is he!

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob