Sentence:  If the virtue of the <WSD>Karaits</WSD> lay in something else than their marriage laws, it is nothing to the purpose on this question; and if in those laws, it must be granted that none except the Roman Catholics ever surpassed their virtue or came nigh to it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (Karaite) (adherent of Karaism)