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That was a specious plea which even had in it a certain element of truth.
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Nor would any specious plea sidetrack him.
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Unscrupulous proselytisers on the specious plea of "Canadianization" have weaned them from the faith of their fathers.
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This specious plea assumed that the legal-tender note was simply a promise to pay, with only the qualities of an individual obligation.
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On the somewhat specious plea that Holy Writ might have a chastening effect, she was permitted to minister to me in my shame.
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Under the specious plea of efficiency and absurd reason of uniformity, they will not even grant charters to independent institutions of higher learning.
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Whatever specious plea might be made for the independent and separate sovereignty of the old thirteen States, the argument could not apply to Louisiana.
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No one has a moral right to believe what is false, much less to teach it, under the specious plea of freedom of thought.
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"Has it become so intolerable that you desire to commit suicide, under the specious plea of philanthropic martyrdom?"