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And so Plato called anger

And so Plato called anger the 114 nerves of the mind, since it can be both intensified by bitterness, and slackened by mildness.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

A similar process continually alters

A similar process continually alters the meaning of conventional expressions current in polite society.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

a sweet pretty creature and

At last a young officer, marching fiercely up to me, said, “You are a sweet pretty creature, and I enlist you in my service;” and then, with great violence, he seized my hand.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

amuse sick people children and

Having sat, poor soul, long by the bedside of Small (a man of poor constitution), she had acquired, the habit, and there were countless subsequent occasions when she had sat immense periods of time to amuse sick people, children, and other helpless persons, and she could never divest herself of the feeling that the world was the most ungrateful place anybody could live in.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

annitentibus sed praecipue Croco alii

17 Note 15 ( return ) [ Cunctis qui aderant, annitentibus, sed praecipue Croco (alii Eroco)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

a sweet playful child and

He was a sweet, playful child, and sure never before was father so foolishly proud of his son as was Dr. Kennedy of his.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

and soothes pious consciences and

This comparison quiets souls anxious about their salvation, and soothes pious consciences; and the sense of forgiveness which comes in this way is always experienced as a revelation of wonderful love.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

and such poor chattels as

He is bound for Brest, he says, and has agreed to take me and such poor chattels as are saved, to Brittany, where
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

and some pleasant conjectures as

The two warriors, waggling their old heads at each other, presently joined breakfast, and fell into conversation, and we had the advantage of hearing about the old war, and some pleasant conjectures as to the next, which they considered imminent.
— from The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Amid such political circumstances as

Amid such political circumstances as these, not only did all feeling of Italian nationality perish, but patriotism for city or kingdom died before the imperative instincts of self-preservation.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

a single people centralizing and

Their history is therefore not the history of a single people, centralizing and absorbing its constituent elements by a process of continued evolution, but a group of cognate populations, exemplifying divers types of constitutional developments.”
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

are seven parish churches and

There are seven parish churches, and numerous chapels dependent on each.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

and she poor child all

Osmonde cried, "wrought he the poor thing's ruin?" "No," the Duchess replied; "but would have done it, and she, poor child, all innocent, believing herself an honest wife.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

a silver pail containing a

He set everything on the table, so as to avoid having to disturb himself again; and as the table was rather narrow he placed on the floor, between them, a silver pail containing a bottle of champagne surrounded by ice.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

a superb physical constitution another

One was a superb physical constitution; another was a taste for intellectual delights; and to the upbuilding of both these in his son, Thomas Marshall devoted himself with enthusiasm and masculine good sense, aided on the one hand by a very select library consisting of Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, and Pope, and on the other by the ever fresh invitation of the mountainside to health-giving sports.
— from John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court by Edward Samuel Corwin

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