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Our people forgot that the religious persecution, of which they cherished the bitter memory, was the result of the spirit of the age, and not of one form of religious faith.
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Hoar points out that the memory of religious persecution is often misattributed to a single faith rather than the prevailing societal attitudes of the time.
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But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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