false profession
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Yes; a profession—a false profession, Mr Gresham,—a false profession—a false profession.
From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony
The heart must be probed to the very bottom, in order that no element of hypocrisy or false profession may be allowed to lodge there.
From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry
Of the malice of the devil, I knew nothing; of the misery of the world, I knew nothing whatsoever; and the false profession of people who are called spiritual was also unknown to me.
From Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by Magdeburg, Matilda of
But for the third degree, which is Simulation and false profession: that I hold more culpable and less politic, except it be in great and rare matters.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
But for the third degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis
