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drove right on where nobody else
Deacon Farnham seemed to know exactly what he was about; for he drove right on where nobody else could see any road, until he stopped in front of a very small and very rudely made kind of house.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard

deep reflection of which not everyone
It is only after deep reflection, of which not everyone is capable, that the individual realizes that Morality is an essential condition of the life of society, and that the preservation of society is an essential condition of his own life; before he investigates, before he even meditates on Morality, the individual feels it directly to be unpleasant, laborious, stern—nay, hostile.
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

destructive raids of which New England
I have given the story in detail, as showing the origin and character of the destructive raids, of which New England annalists show only the results.
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

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