1 I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many millions there might be of each religious sect, or political party among us.
2 Then she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 3 But the petition was already breathed, nor could all the narrow prejudices of her sect induce Rebecca to wish it recalled.
4 The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.
5 This is what socialism said outside and above a few sects which have gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched out in minds.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION 6 This is enough to say concerning commonwealths, but as regards sects, we see from the instance of our own religion that here too a like renewal is needed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I.