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grounded in right or not and
I then received illustration from heaven, from which I perceived how far each point was grounded in right or not; and I saw how industriously they concealed what was unjust, and gave it a semblance of what was just; and how they selected some particular statute which favored their own side of the question, and by cunning reasonings warped the rest to the same side.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

getting in return one naive and
She had often thought of Daphne Wing, and had written twice, getting in return one naive and pathetic answer: 'DEAR MRS.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

great industrial region of North America
alent for the zone of the Atlantic tablelands, which is now the great industrial region of North America.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

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