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continuity embraces but is not embraced
Hebraism, hence, is a wider term than religion and its continuity embraces, but is not embraced by, the continuity of religion.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

concretely experienced but is not even
in a “purity” which not only is not concretely experienced, but is not even capable of being conceived, because each concept 129 drags the other ineluctably into its own definition.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

called earth but is no earth
Foolish men, nay they that the world holds for great doctors, say and tell it for truth, that God made man of a piece of mud, or clay, or dust of the earth, which is false; it was no such matter, but a Quintessential Matter which is called earth, but is no earth.'—
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan

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