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from referring in a note to

[369] I cannot refrain from referring in a note to an additional set of facts instanced by Lotze in his Medizinische Psychologie, § 431, although I am not satisfied with the explanation, fatigue of the sense-organ, which he gives.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Fifth Race Irish and not to

But this story is told by Nennius as applying to the Milesians, the Fifth Race Irish, and not to the Second Race Nemedians; and probably relates to events in comparatively historical tiems,— say a million years ago, or between that and the submersion of Poseidonis about nine thousand B.C. One would imagine that Ireland, from its position, must have been a main battle-ground between the men of the Fifth and the Atlanteans, between the White and the Black Magicians.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Flamstead refers in a note to

In the second passage in italics, Mr. Flamstead refers, in a note, to Mr. Colson’s letter to him, in which he seems to have represented practical astronomy as trifling.
— from The Life of Sir Isaac Newton by David Brewster

for Rembrandt it appertained not to

We cannot, I fear, claim any very subtle delicacy of taste for Rembrandt, it appertained not to his race or time; but it seems more than strange that he should have given to an illegitimate child the name which had been borne by his mother and by two luckless infants of the dead Saskia.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell

figures representing it are not the

The zodiac promises us a good star, and the figures representing it are not the common emblems, but each deeply significant.
— from Serapis — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

firmly Remember I am not talking

"Then you can never be mine," Marian said firmly. "Remember, I am not talking of a common friendship, a friendship of daily association.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

fully rigged it and neatly trimmed

This was all the Professor needed, and he forthwith launched a ship of disquisition, but when he had fully rigged it and neatly trimmed its sails, his wife broke in with the remark that the country was overrun with common people from the city.
— from A Yankee from the West: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

flat roof is absolutely necessary this

The pitch of the real roof is very flat, and where a flat roof is absolutely necessary, this kind of ceiling is undoubtedly very effective.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

for riches I am not the

I care not for beauty; I care not for riches: I am not the slave whom their tinsel bewitches: A bosom I seek That is true, like mine own,— Though pale be the cheek, And its roses all flown,—
— from The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper

for requesting it are not to

My reasons for requesting it are not to solicit either place or pension, but to save the life of an erring creature whose crime has been that of ignorance.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

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