forasmuch as
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Was passing eulogy on Rhodes and the Chartered Company, forasmuch as, whilst certainly mowing down the Matabele with the Maxim gun, they had spread the benefits of civilisation, "extending railways, extending telegraphs, extending roads."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
My God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee.
From Biblical Extracts Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities by Cooper, Robert
Others again said that, forasmuch as the expedition was perilous, they ought to go by night and not by day.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II by Zurara, Gomes Eannes de
But forasmuch as it is plain that the preference is to be given to divine love, it follows, that this alone is good.
From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann
And some said that the Pope assented thereto; but we-242- do not give faith to this, forasmuch as he was held to be a holy man.
From Villani's Chronicle Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani by Villani, Giovanni
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