article of religion
Example Sentences
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His judgment, indeed, of Pitt always seemed to me much warped by that adoration of Fox which in the early years of the century was almost an article of religion in Whig circles.
From Lord John Russell by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)
The commonplace sound people submit, and compel the rest to submit, because they have been taught to do so as an article of religion and a point of honor.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
And then not to neglect Pansy, not under any provocation to neglect her—this she had made an article of religion.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry
In their case they do not even have the sustaining thought of its being an article of religion, so they are to be complimented the more.
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Shepperson, Claude A.
The article of religion I shall divide into Christian, Jewish, Mahometan, and Pagan; and shall now and then hint at the particular sect of them that prevails in the places which I shall describe.
