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“His followers go along with what he says as if they were members of a sect. If he says it’s no problem to go out, people believe him,” Marino said.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2020

Manichee, lib. ix. ch. vi. sect. xvi. in Anac., vol. ii. p.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by Doane, T. W.

T. Browne: Religio Medici, part ii. sect. xi.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Sicanians and Sicilians were anciently two distinct people.—Trans.619.Diod. l. xiv. p. 268-278.620.Triremes.621.Honos alit artes.622.The curious reader will find a very particular account of it in book xxii. art. ii. sect. ii.—Trans.623.Diod. l. xiv. p. 279-295.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles

This, Blacman's one literary quotation, is a garbled one from Petrarch's De Vita Solitaria, lib. ii. sect. vi. c. i. p.

From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)