In the "brief explanation" of the pamphlet which he gave afterwards, he declared that it had no bearing whatever upon the Occasional Conformity Bill, pointing to his former writings on the subject, in which he had denounced the practice, and welcomed the Bill as a useful instrument for purging the Dissenting bodies of half-and-half professors.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
purging magistrates' courts of their leniency toward dealers in impure, dangerous milk is better than purging milk of germs.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
And Betty shuddered at this vision of purging by fire, and at the 'mental standpoint' of the man who had conceived life so.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay