1. The people have been conditioned through violence and persecution into acquiescence, too scared to rock the boat.
2. For the Jews, persecution was the shadow relentlessly following their every move.
3. Settlements always at risk and with no standing army, they repeatedly searched for a place beyond the long arm of persecution.
4. The various belief systems wrestled for hearts and minds and when internal quarrels flared, they separated into different factions, creating further reasons for persecution and death.
5. That upon a quarrel among us, I was set on shore on this coast, where I walked forward, without knowing whither, till he delivered me from the persecution of those execrable yahoos.
6. The most dreadful misfortunes, the most frightful sufferings, the abandonment of all those who loved me, the persecution of those who did not know me, formed the trials of my youth when suddenly, from captivity, solitude, misery, I was restored to light and liberty, and became the possessor of a fortune so brilliant, so unbounded, so unheard-of, that I must have been blind not to be conscious that God had endowed me with it to work out his own great designs.
7. James Desmond, who is the next heir, is an elderly gentleman of a very amiable disposition, so that this persecution does not arise from him.
8. Ichabod became the object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders.
9. Providence has willed that you should be persecuted this persecution to-day consecrates you king of France.
10. It has given you the features, figure, age, and voice of your brother and the very causes of your persecution are about to become those of your triumphant restoration.