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1. It might dispose them not only to respect, for whole centuries together, that treaty of commerce which they had concluded with us at parting, but to favour us in war as well as in trade, and instead of turbulent and factious subjects, to become our most faithful, affectionate, and generous allies; and the same sort of parental affection on the one side, and filial respect on the other, might revive between Great Britain and her colonies, which used to subsist between those of ancient Greece and the mother city from which they descended
2. But should the sovereign attempt irregularly, and by violence, to deprive any number of clergymen of their freeholds, on account, perhaps, of their having propagated, with more than ordinary zeal, some factious or seditious doctrine, he would only render, by such persecution, both them and their doctrine ten times more popular, and therefore ten times more troublesome and dangerous, than they had been before
3. As long as the people of each parish preserved the right of electing their own pastors, they acted almost always under the influence of the clergy, and generally of the most factious and fanatical of the order
4. honor and incorruption, eternal life: but unto them that are factious, and obey not the
5. but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey
6. Fabvier was factious; Bavoux was revolutionary
7. Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious
8. The transition from a wild, factious democracy, to despotism, is often easy, and generally sudden