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and peculiar religious experience and

The solitary hired man on a farm in the outskirts of Concord, who has had his second birth and peculiar religious experience, and is driven as he believes into the silent gravity and exclusiveness by his faith, may think it is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of years ago, travelled the same road and had the same experience; but he, being wise, knew it to be universal, and treated his neighbors accordingly, and is even said to have invented and established worship among men.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

and probably rightly explained as

[ This is usually, and probably rightly, explained as relating to both shores of the Cimbric Chersonesus.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

a pryin round everywhar as

Mas’r couldn’t help hisself; he did right, but I’m feared things will be kinder goin’ to rack, when I’m gone Mas’r can’t be spected to be a pryin’ round everywhar, as I’ve done, a keepin’ up all the ends.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

a perfect rapture especially as

He was in a perfect rapture, especially as he had spent the whole time of his friend’s absence in extreme dejection.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Art play religious exercises and

Art, play, religious exercises, and political activity are either wholly or almost wholly forms of expression, and have, therefore, that symbolic and ceremonial character which belongs especially to ritual and to art, but is characteristic of every activity carried on for its own sake.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

a pub regretfully ejecting an

He hustled R.V. Smethurst off stage rather like a chucker-out in a pub regretfully ejecting an old and respected customer, and starting paging G.G. Simmons.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

a priest read either Archilochus

And that you may understand what I mean by this, let no one who has been consecrated a priest read either Archilochus or Hipponax 525 or anyone else who writes such poems as theirs.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Antoninus Pius Rhodiorum et Asiæ

58): about A.D. 155, under Antoninus Pius, ‘Rhodiorum et Asiæ oppida’ (Capitol.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

and posts recently established at

All the places accessible to shipping have been taken possession of, and posts recently established at them by the company.
— from The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Washington Irving

a pleasant room exclaimed Andy

"What a pleasant room!" exclaimed Andy.
— from Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

and picture right education and

But in every page, story, and picture, right education and right influence are kept in view.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth

and Plantagenet regarded England as

But neither William nor his successors of the House of Anjou and Plantagenet regarded England as their true home.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

a perfect rule even as

But by lifting the Christian productions up to the level of the old Jewish ones, injury was done to that living consciousness which feels the opposition between spirit and letter; the latter writings tacitly assuming or keeping the character of a perfect rule even as to form.
— from The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson

and precious rounds except Alexandrian

Poore and base seemeth he to himself, except the walls have shined with great and precious rounds, except Alexandrian marbles be distinguished with Numidian roofe-caste, except the chamber be covered over with glasse, except stone of the Ile Thassus, once a rare gazing-stocke in some church (temple), have compassed about our ponds into which we let down our bodies exhausted by much labour; except silver cocks have poured out water unto us.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

a promontory really exists and

That such a promontory really exists, and advances to within a very small distance from Tschukotskoi Noss, can hardly be doubted; at least it seems to be confirmed by all the latest accounts which have been procured from those parts [27] .
— from Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China by William Coxe

a Protestant Religious Establishment at

This account was again republished, with additions, in 1837, entitled Brief Memorials of Nicholas Ferrar, Founder of a Protestant Religious Establishment at Little Gidding, in Huntingdonshire , by the Rev. T.M. Macdonogh, Vicar of Bovingdon.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various

and presently returned escorting a

Saluting again, Mafuta disappeared, and presently returned escorting a tall savage, unarmed save for a light switch, such as every native habitually carries, in order to defend himself against the attacks of snakes.
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood

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