pharisee

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His whole heart would respond to the cry of sad publican or despairing pharisee, 'How am I to be good?'

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George

“Yes; but, grandmother, if the pharisee really was a good man, it wasn't right for him to thank God for it?”

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.

From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria

More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter