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a professional equipment x
But with the profit of our adaptability we are in danger of losing the underlying sense of purpose that inspires and continues to justify measures, and to lose also a certain intimate intercourse with problems of theory and philosophy which is one of the requisites of a professional equipment {x} and one nowhere better appreciated than in countries loyal to Teutonic ideals of culture.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A PROPHECY Exodus xii
A LAST MERCIFUL WARNING (Exodus xi. 1-10) THE PASSOVER: AN EXPIATION AND A FEAST, A MEMORIAL AND A PROPHECY (Exodus xii.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

A PAST ERA XXVII
A STATESMAN OF A PAST ERA XXVII.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

and Pupils Exercise XXVI
AUDUBON WORK For Teachers and Pupils Exercise XXVI.
— from Bird-Lore, March-April 1916 by Various

a pastoral elegy xi
87 American colonies, a refuge for the disaffected, x, 394 Amours (Ovid’s) translations from, xii, 257 Amphitryon, or the two Sosias, a comedy, viii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 letter and verses on, ib. 5 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7 prologue to, ib. 12 epilogue to, ib. 106 Amyntas, a pastoral elegy, xi, 139 Anabaptists, account of, x, 145 Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176 Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155 viii Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363 British custom, xviii, 120 Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396 ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44 Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54 account of, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

A PLEASANT EVENING XXV
A PLEASANT EVENING XXV MRS.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

and Papers etc XIII
[464] Letters and Papers , etc. XIII.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay


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