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and live Ex xxxiii

Who can believe that awfully majestic Being, who is represented by his own inspired book as being so transcendently grand and awe-inspiring that "no man san see him and live" (Ex. xxxiii.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

and life endeared XCIV

Revere the remnants nations once revered; So may our country's name be undisgraced, So mayst thou prosper where thy youth was reared, By every honest joy of love and life endeared! XCIV.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

and land everywhere XVII

See , n. sea, IX 9, XII a 25, XIV c 34, &c.; Se , VII 125, X 11, XIII a 28, &c.; Sea , VII 143, &c.; beȝo(u)nde þe see , in foreign lands, I 252, IX 76, 128, 271; bi see and bi sand , on se and bi side , on sea and land, everywhere, XVII 75, 542.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

and little ECCLESIASTICUS xix

March 22 He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little .—ECCLESIASTICUS xix.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

anciennes lois etc xii

Isambert, Recueil des anciennes lois, etc., xii.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Anonymous Letters Essay XXV

nowledging orders, 361 ; slovenly writing, one subject in each letter, 362 ; misunderstanding through ignorance, 363 ; in foreign languages, 364 ; conventional slang, 365 ; careful reading necessary, 366 ; unopened letters, 367 ; epistles half-read, 368 ; a stupid error, 369 ; Anonymous Letters ( Essay XXV. ), 370-382 ; common, 370 ; slanderous, 371 ; vehicle of calumny, 372 ; written to betrothed lovers, 373 ; story, 374 ; written in collaboration and with pains, 375 ; an expected grandchild, 376 ; torture and threats, 377 ; kindly and critical, 378-382 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

and life Essay XVI

Diminution, habit in art and life ( Essay XVI. ), 232-238 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

and life Essay XVI

Exaggeration, the habit in art and life ( Essay XVI. ), 232-238 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

and law Essay XV

Piety: and law ( Essay XV. ), 215-231 passim ; shipwreck, 226 , 227 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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