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[34] So Markland, but Hermann and the Cambridge editor prefer the old reading μετεστι σοι .
— from The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
Having noticed the Imperialist reports, it is now necessary to give the following digest of the events referred to, and which may be depended upon as the only [772] possible version to be derived from the existing and attainable sources of information:— It is known that when the Chung-wang became convinced England was determined to persist in prosecuting hostilities against his people, and likewise felt their inability to cope with the foreign power, he at once decided upon the best military movement under the circumstances—namely, an entire abandonment of all accessible possessions, and a retreat into the interior, where British hostility could not reach them, and where no Manchoo forces could either prevent their operations, restrain their consequent reinforcement, or impede their future progress.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley
Dialectic can bring into clear consciousness the implicit beliefs which underlie action, but it cannot either prove them or refute them.
— from Theism and Humanism Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 by Arthur James Balfour
In this respect his career exactly parallels that of Robert-Houdin.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans
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