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from a mere intellectual consideration of man

The broad sympathies and discerning insight needed for the healing of earthly woes cannot flow from a mere intellectual consideration of man's diversities, but from knowledge of man's sole unity-his kinship with God.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

found a mean irregular collection of mud

The town of Monterey, if it could be dignified by the title, we found a mean, irregular collection of mud huts, and long, low, adobie dwellings, strewn promiscuously over an easy slope, down to the water's edge.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

final and more intimate consideration of marriage

It becomes necessary, therefore, to supplement the preceding discussion of marriage in its general outlines by a final and more intimate consideration of marriage in its essence, as embracing the art of love and the science of procreation.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

for a moment in consequence of my

SIR, May I trouble you, and but for a moment, in consequence of my irreparable loss; my ever-honoured husband, Sir William Hamilton, being no more!
— from The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount

finest and most interesting collection of monumental

In the Temple Church there are nine effigies of knights, which are certainly the finest and most interesting collection of monumental figures of this early period possessed by any one church in the kingdom.
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald

first and most infallible consequence of moral

The glorification of success is the first and most infallible consequence of moral indifference.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

father and mother I concentrated on my

The love which most children divide between father and mother I concentrated on my father.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

finds a most interesting combination of metal

In it, however, the electrician finds a most interesting combination of metal and magnetism.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

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