They lost many a fight to the often mysterious fiercity of consumption, typhoid fever, pneumonia, dropsy and other sicknesses.

If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.

Given that we will get the resources, what do we want to achieve?

Such was the view held within the Great Church of the third and fourth centuries, from which all our existing forms of Christianity can trace their descent.