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D Ross II vols
The 5th vol contains the Index by Bomtz, 1831-70, Didot edition (Greek and Latin), 5 vols 1848 74 ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Edited by T Taylor, with Porphyry’s Introduction, 9 vols, 1812, under editorship of J A Smith and W D Ross, II vols, 1908-31, Loeb editions Ethica, Rhetorica, Poetica, Physica, Politica, Metaphysica, 1926-33 Later editions of separate works De Anima Torstrik, 1862, Trendelenburg, 2nd edition, 1877, with English translation, L Wallace, 1882, Biehl, 1884, 1896, with English, R D Hicks, 1907 Ethica J S Brewer (Nicomachean), 1836, W E Jelf, 1856, J F T Rogers, 1865, A Grant, 1857 8, 1866, 1874, 1885, E Moore, 1871, 1878, 4th edition, 1890, Ramsauer (Nicomachean), 1878, Susemihl, 1878, 1880, revised by O Apelt, 1903, A Grant, 1885, I Bywater (Nicomachean), 1890, J Burnet, 1900 Historia Animalium Schneider, 1812, Aubert and Wimmer, 1860; Dittmeyer, 1907 Metaphysica Schwegler, 1848, W Christ, 1899 Organon Waitz, 1844 6 Poetica Vahlen, 1867, 1874, with Notes by E Moore, 1875, with English translation by E R Wharton, 1883, 1885, Uberweg, 1870, 1
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

dearest ring in Venice
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, And find it out by proclamation: Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Deep ravines in various
Deep ravines, in various directions, gave an air of still sterner solemnity to the scene.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

dark roast in vogue
In the United States, there are demands for all degrees; from the light roast, in favor in England, to the extremely dark roast in vogue in France, Italy, Brazil, [Pg 388] Turkey, and in the producing countries.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

dark rebel in vain
With more than poetic feeling I exclaimed: The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

deep Reflection is very
As they neither of them know what I proceed upon, the sprightly Reader, who takes up my Paper in order to be diverted, very often finds himself engaged unawares in a serious and profitable Course of Thinking; as on the contrary, the thoughtful Man, who perhaps may hope to find something Solid, and full of deep Reflection, is very often insensibly betrayed into a Fit of Mirth.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

depreciate rose in value
Coin, which it was the object of the regent to depreciate, rose in value on every fresh attempt to diminish it.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

doubtless received its very
The BUFFER of a railway-carriage doubtless received its very appropriate name from the old pugilistic application of this term.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Din Riogh is very
According to the Book of Rights, the use of wax candles was a royal prerogative:— "A hero who possesses five prerogatives, Is the King of Laighlin of the fort of Labhraidh: The fruit of Almhain [to be brought to him] to his house; And the deer of Gleann Searraigh; To drink by [the light of] fair wax candles, At Din Riogh, is very customary to the king."
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

day ranging in value
One factory alone turns out a thousand machines a day, ranging in value from a few shillings to forty pounds each.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams

dust rose in violent
It was not yet eleven o'clock when a rumbling was heard far down the track, and the dust rose in violent whirlwinds.
— from The Master of the World by Jules Verne

dining room I vaguely
He took a sheaf of papers to the table with him, and we descended to the dining room, I vaguely wondering whether or not the young chauffeur
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

de Rochefort in Vingt
Like M. de Rochefort in 'Vingt Ans Aprés,' like that prisoner of the Bastille, your genius 'n'est que d'un parti, c'est du parti du grand air.' There seems to radiate from you a still persistent energy and enjoyment; in that current of strength not only your characters live, frolic, kindly, and sane, but even your very collaborators were animated by the virtue which went out of you.
— from Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang


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