These people, whom we call priest-ridden, are the only. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
If we are a priest-ridden race we ought to be proud of it!. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Quebec is no longer a rural priest-ridden society of large families. From Wordnik.com. [Meeting the Threat at Home and Abroad] Reference
He railed against the Government, which, he said, was priest-ridden under the whip of. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
No people were more bigoted, more priest-ridden, more credulous of the absurdest superstitions. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
"History ... furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.". From Wordnik.com. [God Doesn't Follow the Law] Reference
The clerical peasants are priest-ridden and good, because they are poor and afraid and superstitious. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Goode: Ellison’s Election Shows We Are ‘Vulnerable To Infiltration’ By Those Who Want Another 9/11] Reference
"What is a poor man to do, whose wife is priest-ridden, and got to be no company -- except for angels?". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. From Wordnik.com. [Crackpot Christianity and America's Current Moral Degeneration] Reference
History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God] Reference
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
An educated nation will never tamely submit to be priest-ridden, and well do Ireland's enslavers know it. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
Scotland, of all the countries of Protestant Europe, has been and is the most superstitious and priest-ridden. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
I believe it to be true, as some say, that we are now as much law-ridden as we were priest-ridden some ages ago. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 413] Reference
The priest-ridden may talk of freedom, but can never secure it; for, as truly said by one of our most admired poets. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
But he specialised as a lama, for in that character he would meet with the least interference in the priest-ridden country. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Again, Thomas Jefferson, History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. From Wordnik.com. [THEY HAVE NO SHAME - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The Roman Catholics control the country, which is absolutely priest-ridden, Reformed or other churches not being permitted in Peru. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”. From Wordnik.com. [Romney's Mormon Speech: The Highlights] Reference
Italy and other priest-ridden countries flock to our shores to practice in this country the abominations taught them in their childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light] Reference
Though an extremely trying climate prevails on these highlands, the hermit-like, priest-ridden people know no better home and are contented with their lot. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
And the same effects caused but a feeble resistance to be opposed to their arms, and the speedy surrender of Manilla by its priest-ridden and effeminate defenders. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
It is sometimes said in praise of Musalmáns that they are not priest-ridden; but no people in the world are so Tradition-ridden, if one may use such an expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
For, strange to say, the modern Spaniards -- at least those who come to the Philippines -- are as little superstitious or priest-ridden as the people of any nation in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850] Reference
Yet we are not in the least a priest-ridden people. From Wordnik.com. [France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889] Reference
Spain was to be entrusted to the hand of a feeble and priest-ridden. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Shipping her impoverished, degraded, criminal, and priest-ridden hordes to. From Wordnik.com. [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference
No nation was ever so completely priest-ridden as the Hindus under the sway of the. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference
An idolatrous people must come from the ranks of ignorance, -- from a priest-ridden race. From Wordnik.com. [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference
And Ireland's political class, once so priest-ridden, now distances itself from the clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
England that they confidently counted in their struggle with a despotic and priest-ridden Europe. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VIII (of 8) Modern England, 1760-1815] Reference
If any men at any time have been priest-ridden, such was the condition of those early Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
From other descriptions we might have imagined Louis IX. as a bigoted, priest-ridden, credulous King. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
Spain and Portugal are just awakening from the priest-ridden lethargy of centuries, and are making history anew. From Wordnik.com. [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference
The Jews -- most law-bound and priest-ridden of all peoples -- are at home everywhere because they have no home. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
The Hindus may seem to have been a priest-ridden race, and their devotion to sacrifice and ceremonial is well known. From Wordnik.com. [India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge] Reference
Mexico, Guatemala, Yucatan, and all the petty priest-ridden republics of the Isthmus, must follow, and that too very soon. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference
It is true I was a young man fairly well educated, and as a consequence disbelieved many of the stories of a priest-ridden age. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Trewinion] Reference
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