| Thompson is the freethinking, questioning spirit of a population that once challenged its government instead of championing it. |
| His parents were religious but freethinking, and he attended the Church of England and the Wesleyan chapel. |
| It was the century of religious freethinking, and printing outside Europe. |
| This was in Kishinv, a hot-bed of noisy, passionate freethinking blended with Asiatic aboriginality. |
| The Robinsons went to church occasionally, but if they subscribed to any credo it was that of freethinking. |
| In 1822, he went to school at the Collège Royal in Lyon, where the liberal, freethinking atmosphere troubled his adolescent mind. |
