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25 —Pero el parecer de usted.... —Mi parecer es que abras los ojos y veas, que abras los oídos y oigas....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Bajo su égida las escuelas mixtas fueron creadas de un modo pleno, el cuerpo docente
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
And thus I have delivered up my poor essay, or little draft of this great princess and her times, with the servants of her state and favour.
— from Travels in England During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta Regalia; Or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, Her Times and Favourites by Paul Hentzner
When Sir Humphry Davy uses more particular expressions, he seems to refer the decomposing effects to the attractions of the poles.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
Me thinkes I hear some of the Adversaries to raise a doubt upon my produced Experiment.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei
We might dwell upon many points, especially if we attempted a more descriptive account of the valuable edition before us.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan
I will only dwell upon my personal experience with Eusapia.
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell
He knelt down by the King's bedside, and asked him in a sorrowful voice what he would, and the King said: "I ask a great matter of thee, and all these my wise men, and I myself, withal, deem that thou canst do it, and thou alone—nay, hearken: I am departing, and I would have thee hold my place, and do unto my people even what I would do if I myself were living; and to my daughter as nigh to that as may be.
— from Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris
It may indeed happen, and does happen often, that if the master is a man of sense and energy, a large quantity of material work may be done under mechanical pressure, enforced by strong will and guided by wise method; also it may happen, and does happen often, that if the master is indolent and weak (however good-natured), a very small quantity of work, and that bad, may be produced by the servant's undirected strength, and contemptuous gratitude.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
Hoc ita verum esse asserit, ut credi possit; retulit hoc Cardinali de Ursinis, multisque praeterea, et omnibus eisdem verbis, ut opinor, non esse haec ab eo conficta.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
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