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Meanings of simple piety in English

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Usage of simple piety in English
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The great Father longs for simple lives, simple piety, perpetual thanksgiving.
Letters to His Friends
2
There is no bridge from the simple piety of the peasant to instructed belief.
Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
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Her attitude of simple piety helped him play his part.
The black prism
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She was a woman well beyond middle age, and of a frank and simple piety.
The American Child
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In short, the letter was one "Hurrah!" tempered with simple piety and love.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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He assumed, of course, in his simple piety, that whatever comes from God must be good.
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
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She was very religious, and had imbued her boy with all her beautiful faith and simple piety.
Shadows of Shasta
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They bear the same character as the pictures by the old masters, of a deep and simple piety.
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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When they are few, timid and uninfluential, knowledge and power, nay, simple piety itself, can hardly support her.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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St. Mark's is monumental; it is an imperishable remembrancer of the profound and simple piety of the Middle Ages.
A Tramp Abroad
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Such simple piety touched me.
The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers
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The rite was practised beyond doubt in simple piety; the repose of the soul was its object: its motive, reverent affection.
In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
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He had too a simple piety that made his church a power in spite of fashionable weddings and exorbitant pew rents.
The Altar Steps
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The Beghards, or Weaving Brothers, took pattern by this busy guild of workers and followed the same rules of simple piety.
Heroes of Modern Europe
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In general they adhered with simplicity to the simple piety of their ancestors, and kept equally aloof from superstition and from unbelief.
The History of Rome, Book II / From the Abolition of the Monarch...
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The simple piety which ascribed the origin of all things to God, took all in good part, trusting and hoping all things.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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