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fact conscience condemns an

But, as a matter of fact, conscience condemns an action because that action has been condemned for a long period of time: all conscience does is to imitate.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

future certain charge and

From one word to more we were resolved to try, and to that end to step to the Pope’s Head Taverne, and there he and his Clerke and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr. Smallwood, and by and by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I had privately discoursed with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, and what future certain charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtful victory, I resolved to condescend very low, and after some talke all together Trice
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

first cut came asked

She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely." "Didn't you feel dreadfully when the first cut came?" asked Meg, with a shiver.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

from classes corporations and

My object is to remark, that all these various rights, which have been successively wrested, in our time, from classes, corporations, and individuals, have not served to raise new secondary powers on a more democratic basis, but have uniformly been concentrated in the hands of the sovereign.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

From Cyprus Candy and

Know, knights of Malta, that we came from Rhodes, ]From Cyprus, Candy, and those other isles That lie betwixt the Mediterranean seas.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

for C C and

The end of January, 1754, before going to the casino, I called upon Laura to give her a letter for C—— C——, and she handed me one from her which amused me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

fresh complexioned cleanly and

The boors of Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

from constructive centres as

Much the same kind of considerations control ceiling decoration, where, in addition, suggestions may be taken from constructive conditions, as, in flat ceilings, the design following parallel beams and joists and their interstices; the panelled arrangement of a coffered ceiling; or radiating spring of lines from constructive centres, as in vaulted ceilings.
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

for Cruchard Carvalho asked

As for Cruchard, Carvalho asked him for some changes which he refused.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

fried chicken coming and

There's fried chicken coming and no considerations of friendship would induce me to hurry away from it."
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

for consulting Conjurers and

Among these the Complaints of Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester, who was banished for consulting Conjurers and Fortune-tellers about the Life of King Henry VI. and whose exile quickly made way for the murder of her husband, has of all his compositions been most admired; and from this I shall quote a few lines which that Lady speaks.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Theophilus Cibber

fainting clonic convulsions and

Symptoms other than cerebral are chilliness of the body, inclination to fainting, clonic convulsions, and a want of co-ordination of the muscles of the lower extremities.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

F C Clarke A

BY S. G. Starling , A.R.C.Sc., B.Sc., Head of the Mathematics and Physics Department of the West Ham Municipal Technical Institute; and F. C. Clarke , A.R.C.Sc., B.Sc.
— from Astronomical Discovery by H. H. (Herbert Hall) Turner

from casual contacts and

Syphilis insontium , or syphilis of the innocent, as it is commonly called, may be said to fall into five groups: (1) the vast army of congenitally syphilitic infants who inherit the disease from father or mother; (2) the constantly occurring cases of syphilis contracted, in the course of their professional duties, by doctors, midwives and wet-nurses; (3) infection as a result of affection, as in simple kissing; (4) accidental infection from casual contacts and from using in common the objects and utensils of daily life, such as cups, towels, razors, knives (as in ritual circumcision), etc; (5) the infection of wives by their husbands.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

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