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  • So, if we have this correct, Ann Coulter believes that NBC executives (part of what she refers to as the "liberal media") gathered around in a conference room working out diabolical plans to prevent her from selling books.
  • In other words, they regarded Zeus, Aphrodite and the rest as real persons, diabolical not divine.
  • It not only divides states and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
  • With these may be named the demon lantern-bearers, so perfect in the grotesque treatment of the diabolical heads and the accurate anatomical forms of the sturdy body and limbs; the colossal temple guardians of the great gate of Tdai-ji, by Unkei and Kwaikei (11th century), somewhat conventionalized, but still bearing evidence of direct study from nature, and inspired with intense energy of action; and the smaller but more accurately modelled temple guardians in the Saikondo, Nara, which almost compare with the fighting gladiator in their realization of menacing strength.
  • He had much to do with the witchcraft persecution of his day; in 1692 when the magistrates appealed to the Boston clergy for advice in regard to the witchcraft cases in Salem he drafted their reply, upon which the prosecutions were based; in 1689 he had written Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions, and even his earlier diaries have many entries showing his belief in diabolical possession and his fear and hatred of it.
 
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