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and love to enemies xxv
10, and love to enemies, xxv.
— from Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen

and let the extremity x
Let a link P′ x′ , equal in length to the link P p be attached to the point P′ , and let the extremity x′ of this link be connected with the point p by another link, equal in length to P P′ , by pivots at x′ and p , so that the figure P P′ x′
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

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