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Endzweck from xliv
Thus real means quite a different thing from wirklich ; Hang from Neigung ; Rührung from Affekt or Leidenschaft ; Anschauung from Empfindung or Wahrnehmung ; Endzweck from xliv letzter Zweck ; Idee from Vorstellung ; Eigenschaft from Attribut or Beschaffenheit ; Schranke from Grenze ; überreden from überzeugen , etc.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

emanated from Xenophon
After this, when the Heracleots learned that the departure by sea was resolved upon, and that the measure itself emanated from Xenophon, they sent the vessels indeed; but as to the money which they had promised to Timasion and Thorax as pay for the soldiers, they were not as good as their word, in fact they cheated them both.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Erste Folge XVIII
Erste Folge, XVIII (1872), 233-47.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

ever free XLIV
And, when they stood in most necessitee, He did supply their want, and gave them ever free. XLIV There when the Elfin knight arrived was, The first and chiefest of the seven, whose care 390 Was guests to welcome, towardes him did pas: Where seeing Mercie, that his steps upbare, And alwayes led, to her with reverence rare He humbly louted in meeke lowlinesse, And seemely welcome for her did prepare: 395 For of their order she was Patronesse, Albe Charissa were their chiefest founderesse.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

END FOOTNOTES X
THE END. FOOTNOTES: [X] See the Public Advertiser, July 14, 1787.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Echoing Footsteps XXII
Echoing Footsteps XXII.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

explanation found XXVII
Its explanation found! XXVII.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

emblem flew XX
So constant to its stolid trust, The shaft that never knew, It shames the constancy that fled Before its emblem flew. XX.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

end Fable XXVII
The Goose called out after her : “He who trusts himself to so weak a protector, deserves to come to a still worse end.” Fable XXVII.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

et flavum Xanthus
[328] Cyllarus et flavum Xanthus sprevisset Achillem.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Elliott Fry XXIII
Sir Robert Rawlinson 513 ( Illustrations from Drawings and Paintings; and from Photographs by Messrs. Elliott & Fry .) XXIII.—
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

even from Xenophon
But this is not an exact statement of the matter in debate; for it slurs over at least, if it does not deny, that speciality of inspiration from the gods, which those who talked with Sokratês—as we learn even from Xenophon—believed, and which Sokratês himself believed also.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

Elliott Fry XXXIII
By Mary Spencer-Warren 348 ( Illustrations by Warne Browne , Sir Edmund Henderson , Edmund Caldwell , and from Photographs by Messrs. Elliott & Fry .) XXXIII.— Mr. Charles Wyndham.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 42, June, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

enjoyed for xxii
Nor can this be wondered at, when it is borne in mind that he was nearly of my own age, and next to me the eldest of our Society; the habit, too, of friendly intercourse enjoyed for xxii many years, has great influence in riveting the affections of the mind.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

everlasting fire xxv
“Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” ( xxv, 41 ).
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

En Ferrar Ximenes
The other two chiefs of the company, En Berenguer de Entenza and En Ferrar Ximenes, remained at Gallipoli; but the Prince, with Muntaner, proceeded to Nona, where he was received with great honour.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

extract from xiii
181 Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus and Coloneus of, character of, vi, 117, 124 Sophonisba, prologue to, x, 350 Southerne, poetical epistle to, xi, 50 remarks on, ib. 47 account of, ib. 48 verses of to Congreve, xi, 61 anecdote of, i, 237 commencement of Dryden’s friendship with, i, 294 character of, i, 372 Spanheim’s dissertations, extract from, xiii, 47 Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery, vi, 365 remarks on, ib. 367 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 373 prologue to, ib. 382 epilogue to, ib. 485 prohibited by James II.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden


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