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To Preserve one nation free from Idolatry in order that it might be a safe receptacle for the precursive Evidences of Christianity, was the principle design of the Mosaic Dispensation.
The lyric dispensation: Coleridge, Mosaic law, and equivocal authority in "the Eolian Harp"
Such a foregrounding is therefore the first precursive device in the narrative, already anticipating his full emergence later as a local government councillor, speech-maker and leader, the 'son of his father,' who was a big-man in his clan.
The precursive element in the latter part of his narrative undoubtedly lies in his report that he began to believe in God.
Seeking personhood: anthropological accounts and local concepts in Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
Jeffares, in a fascinating study of influences on Joyce, traces the precursive voices to the Sterne of Tristam Shandy, that 'bundle of perceptions in constant flux.
Images of Invention: Essays on Irish Writing
the very act of dissenting from established opinions must generate habits precursive to the love of freedom.
"Properer for a Sermon": Particularities of Dissent and Coleridge's Conversational Mode

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