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breeches are mentioned Exodus xxviii
“ Linen breeches ” are mentioned ( Exodus xxviii: 42 ), and it is said “all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands” ( Exodus xxxv: 25 ), and, “all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair” ( Exodus xxxv: 26 ).
— from Discoveries and Inventions: A lecture by Abraham Lincoln delivered in 1860 by Abraham Lincoln

brothers are minds eminently xxx
Both these incomparable brothers are minds eminently [xxx] poetical, and eminently philosophical.
— from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich von Schlegel

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