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left England under circumstances of serious
With these improved prospects he sailed from Liverpool on his last voyage to Brazil; and no one, his wife included, had the faintest suspicion that he left England under circumstances of serious pecuniary embarrassment.
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

like enablements unto causes of state
For hence it proceed-eth, that princes find a solitude in respect of able men to serve them in causes of state, because there is no education collegiate which is free , where such as were so disposed might give themselves to histories, modern languages, books of policy and civil discourse, and other like enablements unto causes of state.”
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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