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empire first Cæsar and then

He also made him one of the procurators of Syria, and commanded that they should do every thing with his approbation; and, in short, he arrived at that pitch of felicity, that whereas there were but two men that governed the vast Roman empire, first Cæsar, and then Agrippa, who was his principal favorite, Cæsar preferred no one to Herod besides Agrippa, and Agrippa made no one his greater friend than Herod besides Cæsar.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

etc from collections and the

I enclose $200 left above travelling expenses, hall rent, etc., from collections and the sale of my trial pamphlets.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

entirely from convenience and though

She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

every future case and thus

It thus announces itself as inevitable in every future case, and thus the law obtains the power to deter, in which its end really consists.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

entreaties for copying and translations

This alone showed the young man's practical and intellectual superiority over the masses of needy and unfortunate students of both sexes who hang about the offices of the newspapers and journals, unable to think of anything better than everlasting entreaties for copying and translations from the French.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

escaped from confinement at Toulon

“A galley-slave, escaped from confinement at Toulon.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

every farmer contributes and tar

Long before Easter the young people have been busy collecting firewood; every farmer contributes, and tar-barrels, petroleum cases, and so forth go to swell the pile.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

excavate for chalk and told

She ran to the chalk digger, whose business it was to excavate for chalk, and told him the situation.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

exit from Christianity and the

This form, which Protestantism assumed at a moment of high tension and reckless self-sufficiency, it will doubtless shed in turn and take on new expressions; but that declaration of independence on the part of the Teutonic spirit marks emphatically its exit from Christianity and the end of that series of transformations in which it took the Bible and patristic dogma for its materials.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Europe from Crete and through

Ægean culture filtered into Western Europe from Crete, and through the Hallstatt culture centre from the Danubian area.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

exempt from care and to

But suffering has an added sting when it enables others to be exempt from care and to live like the gods in irresponsible ease; the inequality which would have been innocent and even beautiful in a happy world becomes, in a painful world, a bitter wrong, or at best a criminal beauty.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

excluded from communion all the

Nor has spiritual despotism been confined to the Catholic missions in West Africa: certain John Knoxes in the Old Calabar River have repeated, especially in the case of the king "young Eyo," whom they excluded from communion, all the abuses and the errors of judgment of the seventeenth century with the modifications of the nineteenth.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

either first came against the

In accordance with that formulary, the mention at the divine mysteries of the prevaricator Acacius, formerly bishop of this city, has been forbidden for the future, as well as of the other bishops who either first came against the apostolic con
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

expensive fur coat and the

From the interior of this was dislodged a fat citizen in an expensive fur coat, and the party continued on its way. Arrived at Narvskaya Zastava, about ten miles out, Antonov called for the commandant of the Red Guard.
— from Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

even for canoes and the

The passage is narrow and dangerous, even for canoes, and the steersman, as he watches the rolling surf, calls out Apo, lau lima !
— from By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke

ensue from crossing and that

In considering whether any facts were known which might throw light on the conclusion arrived at in the last chapter, namely, that benefits ensue from crossing, and that it is a law of nature that all organic beings should occasionally cross, it appeared to me probable that the good derived from slight changes in the conditions of life, from being an analogous phenomenon, might serve this purpose.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

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