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factories population products trade

As we have intimated, offsetting the material civilization of our race, our nationality, its wealth, territories, factories, population, products, trade, and military and naval strength, and breathing breath of life into all these, and more, must be its moral civilization—the formulation, expression, and aidancy whereof, is the very highest height of literature.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

fund parliament proposes to

Part of this fund parliament proposes to raise by a tax to be levied in Great Britain; and part of it by a requisition to all the different colony assemblies of America and the West Indies.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

flying Princeton pennants the

They wore black arm-bands with orange “P's,” and carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs in the same color motifs.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

from private property to

The maxims of Roman jurisprudence, if they could fairly be transferred from private property to public dominion, would have adjudged to the emperor Honorius the guardianship of his nephew, till he had attained, at least, the fourteenth year of his age.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

first pang passes the

And as the sharpness of the first pang passes, the old weary misery returns, and he might almost say to Ophelia, as he does to her brother: I loved you ever: but it is no matter.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

f promise prometer to

promesa , f. , promise. prometer , to promise.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

for political power to

Resting their platforms upon the fugitive slave bill, they boldly asked the people for political power to execute the horrible and hell-black provisions of that bill.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

for patronage printing this

The Café Littéraire, opened on boulevard Bonne Nouvelle late in the nineteenth century, made a direct appeal to literary men for patronage, printing this footnote on its menu: "Every customer spending a franc in this establishment is entitled to one volume of any work to be selected from our vast collection."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

furious popish party that

And had it not been for the resolution and uncommon bravery of the garrisons in the city of Londonderry, and the town of Inniskillin, there had not one place remained for refuge to the distressed protestants in the whole kingdom; but all must have been given up to king James, and to the furious popish party that governed him.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

for political purposes that

As we shall presently see, this Catholic cardinal actually gave military support to Protestants in Germany—for political purposes; it was similarly for political purposes that he attacked the Protestants in France.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

from pompous piety to

Too young to understand much about love-affairs and the like of that, I still knew those eyes, that had shifted in a second from pompous piety to cunning, meant no good to Mary.
— from Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

few possess Patrician treasures

What though not all Of mortal offspring can attain the heights Of envied life; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state;
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

familiar philosophy percolated through

This familiar philosophy percolated through Quinney's mind.
— from Quinneys' by Horace Annesley Vachell

for party purposes they

This statement shows the great ignorance that exists in this country of South African affairs, an ignorance which in this case has been carefully fostered by Mr. Gladstone’s Government for party purposes, they having found it necessary to assume, in order to make their position in the matter tenable, that Sir T. Shepstone and other Officials had been guilty of misrepresentation.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

for preachin peers to

"Well, de Lord knows I'm 'feerd to go," said Martha; "but ef I sot up for preachin', 'peers to me I wouldn' be'feerd to sass witches nor goses, nor nuffin' else."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

friend Patty pretended to

So, partly because she didn’t want to be disturbed, but more for the sake of mischievously teasing 11 her friend, Patty pretended to be oblivious to the hat subject.
— from Patty's Pleasure Trip by Carolyn Wells

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