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«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.»
Author: Bible
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confounded
«Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.»
«They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.»
«Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.»
«Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: / That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.»
«Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.»
Author: Bible
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blasted, confounded, corn field, dismayed, green corn, Green Grass, Grown up, herb, housetop, housetops
«SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acknowledging, confounded, Dionysius, dissolute, faun, goat, Grecian, Hebrew, Leviticus, Romans, satyr, satyrs, transformations, underwent, XVII
«Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.»
«Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.»
Author: Bible
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confounded
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