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circumstances and such evil is not sin
the evil derives from the circumstances... and such evil is not sin.”
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

certainly a sadder expression I never saw
“I pity you from my heart!” said the other; and certainly a sadder expression I never saw in any human face before.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

countries a species exists in New South
Of Sterculia which is scarcely to be found beyond the tropics in other countries, a species exists in New South Wales in the latitude of 34 degrees, on which parallel it is more frequent in the western interior, and in that direction it has been traced to the distance of three hundred miles from the sea-coast.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

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