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least induced no evil and education
Caste would have saved them from alcohol, and their women from contamination: they would thus have maintained their self-respect; and if, at first, separation brought no progress nor shadow of change, it would have at least induced no evil, and education and enlightenment would in time have modified these caste institutions, which, to a superficial observer, seem to be productive of nothing but evil.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

losses in New England and even
There have been some losses in New England, and even from New Jersey reports reached the office of the toll of bird-life that the heavy snow had taken.
— from Bird-Lore, March-April 1916 by Various

law is not enforced and even
But our magistrates and people have become careless and indifferent to these wise and salutary laws which are for the good of religion, and for the preservation of the government, so that the law is not enforced, and even here in Alexandria this illegal and criminal association possess houses in which they secretly celebrate their infamous rites and ceremonies."
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

latitude is not everything and easily
But latitude is not everything, and easily proved so by the rude vigour of plants from New Zealand and the Himalayas that are happy in the north of Scotland, but failures in the midlands and further south of England, requiring the protection of glass to develop their characteristic beauty.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

libraries in New England and elsewhere
Miss Caulkin’s “History of New London,” from which quotations will be found, is in many public libraries in New England and elsewhere.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

life is not extinct are embalmed
Dr. P. J. Gibbons, M.A., says:— “In my mind there is no doubt that bodies in which life is not extinct are embalmed.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb


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