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Sermons are perhaps the best test of such a change; and it is a relief to move from the addresses bristling with Suarez and Bellarmine to the noble exhortations of Bishop Butler.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski uses sermons as a measure of the shift in political and moral discourse from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century.
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