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famous passage just quoted
And what he 'speaks' is shown in these lines, which introduce the famous passage just quoted: Pros.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

French provincial journalism quite
This article, in which periphrastic abuse was strung together with all the heaviness of touch which characterises French provincial journalism, quite terrified Rougon, who muttered, as Felicite replaced the “Gazette” on the table: “Ah! the wretch!
— from The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

f Podol Jewish quarter
[Pg 333] disparages popular education, II 348 f inspires educational restrictions for Jews, II 349 utilizes railroad accident at Borki for purposes of reaction, III 378 opposes Jewish participation in Zemstvos, II 386 endorses expulsion of Jews from Moscow, II 401 receives gift for ecclesiastic schools from Baron Hirsch, II 415 receives White, emissary of Baron Hirsch, II 417 recommends him to officials, II 418 condemns Jews as parasites, II 417 bars Jews from municipal self-government, II 425 all powerful under Nicholas II., III 9 continues fight against Jews, III 9 f Podol , Jewish quarter in Kiev, pogrom in, II 252 ff Podolia , part of Red Russia, I 53 subject to Poland, I 140 uprising against Poles in (1648), I 145 regained by Poland (1667), I 159 annexed by Turkey (1672), I 208 returned to Poland (1699), I 208 strip of, annexed by Austria (1772), I 187 annexed by Russia (1793), I 292 included in Pale (1794), I 317; (1804), I 342; (1835), II 39 Jews prohibited from selling cloth in, I 75 Jews massacred by Cossacks in (1648), I 146 ff, 157 part of, forbidden to Jews (1649), I 151 Jews massacred by haidamacks (1768), I 183 ff Talmudic culture deteriorates in, I 199 Sabbatian movement propagated in, I 208, 210 f Jacob Frank active in, I 211, 212 f, 216 rabbis of, summoned to disputation with Frankists, I 214
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

fine poem just quoted
So, when a poet's last word has been spoken, and spoken emotionally, an Afterword is apt to offend: and we may wish that the fine poem just quoted had been reserved as finish to the volume yet to come, which lacks a closing note, or even that the volume itself had not been published.
— from Horace by William Tuckwell

from Paul just quoted
The first part of the sentence from Paul, just quoted, is indeed very general, and may include all organic natures.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

from President John Quincy
Almost simultaneously with this appointment came the offer of the federal judgeship of Alabama from President John Quincy Adams, but the latter offer was declined, and Governor Pickens entered the federal senate.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

flowers pictures jewels quantities
The effect inside was dazzling: tapers, flowers, pictures, jewels, quantities of women already seated, all in the Kakoshnik, and a general impression of red and gold in their costumes.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

Florilegium Philonis Jewish Quarterly
V. PHILO'S THEOLOGY Montefiore, C., Florilegium Philonis , Jewish Quarterly Review, vol.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

For President John Quincy
Popular Vote — For President , John Quincy Adams, 105,321; Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, 152,899; William H. Crawford, Georgia, 47,265; Henry Clay, Kentucky, 47,087.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

for popularity Jim quickly
His good-nature and real generosity won him friends among those who were at first disgusted by his boasting and display, and with a keen instinct for popularity Jim quickly learned the lesson.
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard

from Priestley just quoted
[Pg 244] That our Savior was divinely inspired, and endued with supernatural powers, are positions that are here taken for granted, as admitting not of the least doubt; they would therefore have been better expressed in the indicative mode; "tho he was divinely inspired," &c. Even on these principles, the verb in the first example from Priestley, just quoted, should have been in the indicative; for there is no doubt that reverence, gratitude, &c. are our duty to the Supreme Being.
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster


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