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The pages of revelation have been long unfolded to our view, and diffusively spread among us.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson, Thomas

Blanqui diffusively gives nearly one half of his “History of Political Economy” to the period before the sixteenth century, when politico-economic laws had not yet been recognized.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart

Having explained very diffusively the great subjects, the moral Education, Discipline, and Peculiar Customs, of the Quakers, I purpose to allot the remaining part of this volume to the consideration of their religion.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas

In the time of Christ it continued the same office, but it was then given more diffusively than before, and also more diffusively to some than to others.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas

The curious contents of his Paradisus are diffusively narrated in Johnson's English Gardening.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel