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be remitted in detaching a

The rigorous application of this rule may perhaps sometimes be remitted in detaching a body on an exterior line, even when the forces are equal, to attain an important result without running much risk; but this is an affair of detachments, and does not refer to the important masses.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

be resolved into details as

So far as a situation is confused, it has to be cleared up; it has to be resolved into details, as sharply defined as possible.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

but resting in divine assurance

Not maintained by human contrivance of tariff or capital, afar off from the fullest and cheapest source of supply, but resting in divine assurance, within touch of field and mine and forest—not set amid costly farms from which competition has driven the farmer in despair, but amid cheap and sunny lands, rich with agriculture, to which neither season nor soil has set a limit—this system of industries is mounting to a splendor that shall dazzle and illumine the world.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

been rapt in delight and

One day when he was standing at the landing-place, having crept down from the upper regions, attracted by the sound of his mother's voice, who was singing to Lord Steyne, the drawing room door opening suddenly, discovered the little spy, who but a moment before had been rapt in delight, and listening to the music.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

be realized in death and

And in a few exceptional individuals who are raised above the ordinary level of humanity, the ideal of happiness may be realized in death and misery.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

by refining its discretion and

But this transmission of the popular authority through an assembly of chosen men operates an important change in it, by refining its discretion and improving the forms which it adopts.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Richard Iones dwelling at

Printed by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

be remembered is deliberately associated

Then, whatever is to be remembered is deliberately associated by some fanciful analogy or connection with some part of this framework, and this connection thenceforward helps its recall.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

background rises into dark and

It is dotted with romantic islands, beautiful hill-slopes border the shores, and the background rises into dark and bold mountains.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Bryce reached it down and

Bryce reached it down and placed it in the mold, and watched grinning as the mold closed and the door rotated, delivering the man-form to an equivalent hook in the spacelock.
— from The Man Who Staked the Stars by Katherine MacLean

by Richard Iones dwelling at

Imprinted at London by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne, nere Holborne bridge.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

but rougher in detail and

Similar in fashion to No. 23, but rougher in detail and finish (Pls. LVIII. and LXII.
— from Five Years' Explorations at Thebes A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter by Howard Carter

buyer running it down as

In selling the animals, there was the usual chaffering, in shrill patois, at the top of the voice—the seller of some poor scraggy beast extolling its merits, the intending buyer running it down as a "misérable bossu," &c., and disputing every point raised in its behalf, until the contest of words rose to such a height—men, women, and even children, on both sides, taking part in it—that the bystander would have thought it impossible they could separate without a fight.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

being repeated in different and

It is in the future confirmation, or contradiction, of the account; in its permanency, or its disappearance; its dying away into silence, or its increasing in notoriety; its being followed up by subsequent accounts, and being repeated in different and independent accounts—that solid truth is distinguished from fugitive lies.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

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