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for a defective experience if not

I used at first to tremble for a defective experience, if not a defective intelligence in them, but I did not find them inadequate to their duties through either.
— from London Films by William Dean Howells

fact as Doreen expressed it no

"In fact," as Doreen expressed it, "no one would have time to sit down comfortably until the feast of Epiphany had passed."
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

form a design equal if not

Here, however, all the parts are pleasingly subordinated one to the other, and the whole are so grouped as to form a design equal, if not superior, to the galleried apses of the German and Lombard churches.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

founds and destroys Empires it not

The momentous war of 1870 is not only one of the grandest illustrations of the art which founds and destroys Empires; it not only is an astonishing drama, every scene which the military student should examine carefully and lay to heart; it not only fascinates the ordinary observer by its gigantic action and immense events; it points conclusively to a solemn moral, not to be forgotten by any country which seeks to maintain its position in the world, and cherishes a sense of its independence.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

from any distinguishing epithet is not

Will itself, considered apart from any distinguishing epithet, is not cognizable by Morality at all.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

fade and die Earth is no

"'It tells me of a place of rest— It tells me where my soul may flee; Oh! to the weary, faint, oppressed, How sweet the bidding, 'Come to Me!' "'When nature shudders, loth to part From all I love, enjoy, and see, When a faint chill steals o'er thy heart, A sweet voice utters, 'Come to Me.' "'Come, for all else must fade and die, Earth is no resting place for thee; Heavenward direct thy weeping eye, I am thy portion, 'Come to Me.'
— from The Seventh Regiment: A Record by George L. Wood

formal and distinct existence in nature

Formal continuity we call that of which all the constituent elements have their own formal and distinct existence in nature.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

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