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few men evinced a

Seventeen years ago, few men possessed a more heavenly countenance than William Lloyd Garrison, and few men evinced a more genuine or a more exalted piety.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

for my eyes and

I must leave off a little; for my eyes and my head are sadly bad.—This was a dreadful trial!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

former master except at

A new master could not establish himself in the same street as his former master, except at a distance, which was determined by the statutes; and, further, no member was allowed to ask for or attract customers when the latter were nearer the shop of his neighbour than of his own.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

followed my example and

to give them further confidence I put my cocked hat with feather on the chief and my over shirt being of the Indian form my hair deshivled and skin well browned with the sun I wanted no further addition to make me a complete Indian in appearance the men followed my example and we were son completely metamorphosed.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

from mutual example and

And being at once exempt from the restraint of an individual responsibility for the acts of the body, and deriving confidence from mutual example and joint influence, unauthorized measures would, of course, be more freely hazarded, than where the executive department is administered by a single hand, or by a few hands.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

fancy mightily especially after

The last five words took Tuppence’s fancy mightily, especially after a meagre breakfast and a supper of buns the night before.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

follows Mrs Erlynne and

Lord Augustus follows Mrs. Erlynne and
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

feel more exalted and

We sincerely believe that all humanity, weighed down as it is by the burden of this passion, are bound to feel more exalted and comforted than formerly, when they had not yet overcome the longing for the coarser satisfaction which accompanies barbarism.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

friends might enjoy at

But though he has added these excrescences, and erected a sort of platform in front of the last, whence he and his friends might enjoy, at their pleasure, a view of the surrounding country, he has taken nothing away; and the public are much indebted to him, and to his successor, for the liberality with which they are admitted to behold one of the most curious specimens of baronial architecture, which is anywhere to be found.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

for metaphysics ethics and

There he will find the Divinity ‘school’ or lecture-room in the place of honour, with Medicine on one hand and Law on the other; the lecture-rooms for grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy, for metaphysics, ethics, and ‘the tongues,’ stretching down School Street on either side.
— from Oxford by Andrew Lang

following Mr Erwin A

TO BLAZE THE TRAIL FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NATION’S ILLITERATES, THIS VOLUME IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED Page break for ePub Grateful acknowledgments are made for assistance and helpful suggestions to the following: Mr. Erwin A. Holt, Mrs. Cornelia Steketee Hulst, Dr. J. G. Crabbe, Miss Linda Neville, General William H. Sears, Mr. Everett Dix, and Dr. Louise McDanell Browne.
— from Moonlight Schools for the Emancipation of Adult Illiterates by Cora Wilson Stewart

Fleming most expert and

He is a Fleming, most expert, and shall choose your suit, Sir Osborne."
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

far more exceeding and

"They are very sweet words," she murmured, "and sweeter still is the assurance given us in the Scriptures that 'our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.'"
— from Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

for my embarkation approached

I left Philadelphia, June 3d, at four o’clock in the morning, to see the coal-mines beyond the Blue Mountains, and then pay another visit to my friends in Bethlehem; after which, I must repair to New York, as to my great sorrow, the time for my embarkation approached.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

far more ease and

How many needful commodities have we which are perfected with great cost, etc., and yet may with far more ease and less cost be provided from other countries if we could use the means!
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

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