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An Account of the Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont, in the Seventeenth Century.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Persecutions will continue, the gentiles will never learn that the Jew is made of flesh and blood and has sentiments and feelings the same as they.

From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton

Persecutions, which have universally followed them, making the acquirement of fixed property unsafe, had much to do with this change.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi

Persecutions come, and martyrdoms, and religious wars; and, at last, the old faith, like the phoenix, expires upon its altar, and the new rises out of the ashes.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire

He exhibited two portraits in 1838, and two years later returned to Aberdeen, exhibiting in the Royal Academy Tasso in Disguise relating his Persecutions to his Sister.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.