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civilization and barbarism behold and
You will behold new scenes; see a new people; witness the mighty struggle there going forward between civilization and barbarism; behold, and perhaps direct the efforts of a young and vigorous population, for liberty and order.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

concealed and betrayed by an
The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

caught and brought back and
I told him he might be caught and brought back; and that was terrible to think of.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

could all be bought and
He always returned home satisfied, though troubled, reflecting that the time would come at last when it could all be bought, and then the cloak made.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

contiguous above below before after
(3) After identity the most universal and comprehensive relations are those of SPACE and TIME, which are the sources of an infinite number of comparisons, such as distant, contiguous, above, below, before, after, etc. (4) All those objects, which admit of QUANTITY, or NUMBER, may be compared in that particular; which is another very fertile source of relation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

chamber and bridal bed and
But even so he left his chamber and bridal bed and prepared a banquet among the strangers, casting all fears from his heart.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

criticised analogy between bodies and
UNIFIED AND MIND DISCERNED Man's feeble grasp of nature.—Its unity ideal and discoverable only by steady thought.—Mind the erratic residue of existence.—Ghostly character of mind.—Hypostasis and criticism both need control.—Comparative constancy in objects and in ideas.—Spirit and sense defined by their relation to nature.—Vague notions of nature involve vague notions of spirit.—Sense and spirit the life of nature, which science redistributes but does not deny Pages 118 - 136 CHAPTER VI DISCOVERY OF FELLOW-MINDS Another background for current experience may be found in alien minds.—Two usual accounts of this conception criticised: analogy between bodies, and dramatic dialogue in the soul.—Subject and object empirical, not transcendental, terms.—Objects originally soaked in secondary and tertiary qualities.—Tertiary qualities transposed.—Imputed mind consists of the tertiary qualities of perceived body—"Pathetic fallacy" normal, yet ordinarily fallacious.—Case where it is not a fallacy.—Knowledge succeeds only by accident.—Limits of insight.—Perception of character.—Conduct divined, consciousness ignored.—Consciousness untrustworthy.—Metaphorical mind.—Summary Pages 137 - 160 CHAPTER VII CONCRETIONS IN DISCOURSE AND IN EXISTENCE So-called abstract qualities primary.—General qualities prior to particular things.—Universals are concretions in discourse.—Similar reactions, merged in one habit of reproduction, yield an idea.—Ideas are ideal.—So-called abstractions complete facts.—Things concretions of concretions.—Ideas prior in the order of knowledge, things in the order of nature.—Aristotle's compromise.—Empirical bias in favour of contiguity.—Artificial divorce of logic from practice.—Their mutual involution.—Rationalistic suicide.—Complementary character of essence and existence Pages
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

carried and brought back again
'If any person visited do fortune, by negligent looking unto, or by any other means, to come or be conveyed from a place infected to any other place, the parish from whence such party hath come or been conveyed, upon notice thereof given, shall at their charge cause the said party so visited and escaped to be carried and brought back again by night, and the parties in this case offending to be punished at the direction of the alderman of the ward, and the house of the receiver of such visited person to be shut up for twenty days.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Cobden and Bright but as
It ran suddenly to the front as a militant party question in 1833, not as if a great free-trade movement had been set afoot which was to anticipate the mission of Cobden and Bright, but as an issue between federal taxation and the constitutional privileges of the States.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

caned a boy before and
“Come out and stand where you were before,” he said, “and that at once, or I shall send for two prefects to drag you out, and shall cane you now as I have never caned a boy before, and that in addition to whatever punishment I shall decide to inflict upon you for your other offence.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

cockades and brass buttons and
Forms and cerimonys are just az mutch necessary in the church az uniforms are in the field; strip an army ov its cockades and brass buttons, and it would bekum a mob.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

crysten and be baptysed and
[78] that Charles and alle hys hoost passed the porte of Cezarye, for Ganellon dyd hym to understonde, that the kynges aforesayd wold become crysten, and be baptysed, and swere fydelyte to themperour.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

cow and bake bread and
How we stopped on the open prairie to kill a cow and bake bread and roast meat, with no pans to do it in!
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

Cross and brought back a
Mr. Ricardo sped down to Charing Cross and brought back a copy of the fourth edition of the Star .
— from The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

cruel and brutal butcher a
He can be the most charming, the most winning, the most generous, the most romantic person who ever breathed; or he can be a Nero, a cruel and brutal butcher, a murderer either of reputations or bodies—he cares little which."
— from The Mischief-Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

calculations are baffled by a
"It is of no use," she said at last, "my knowledge fails me, my calculations are baffled by a quantity I cannot trace.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Chord and Better Bide a
Lucy Robbins, when asked for her favorites, replied; "In the Gloaming," "The Old, Old Home'" "The Lost Chord" and "Better Bide a Wee."
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas


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