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Lawyer mak a preast
A sort ment is good in A shop———— The preasts fixes there goods six days then thay open shop on sundays to sell there goods sum sets them of better than others bolerhed when a man is so week he wont doue for A Lawyer mak a preast of him for week thing to goue with week things the blind to Lead the blind
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

Lens MN and paint
16.] represent a Prism, by which the Sun's Light let into a dark Chamber through the Hole F, may be refracted towards the Lens MN, and paint upon it at p , q , r , s , and t , the usual Colours violet, blue, green, yellow, and red, and let the diverging Rays by the Refraction of this Lens converge again towards X, and there, by the mixture of all those their Colours, compound a white according to what was shewn above.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

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— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

like mathematics and physics
In fact, as distinct from principle, intellectual individualism is tolerated in certain technical regions—in subjects like mathematics and physics and astronomy, and in the technical inventions resulting therefrom.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

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— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

lords Medes Assyrians Persians
Of those that began great and ended in a point, there are thousands of examples, for all the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the Caesars of Rome, and the whole herd (if I may apply such a word to them) of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and come to nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

levantándose muy alterado por
05 —¡Que entre!—respondió el tío Hormiga, levantándose muy alterado por habérsele ocurrido, desde las primeras palabras del mayoral, que todo aquello tenía bastante que ver con el célebre tesoro , a cuyo hallazgo por sus solos esfuerzos había renunciado
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

land many a passenger
With the first sight of land many a passenger draws a long sigh of relief.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

London mansion and Parsons
The Duchess of Northumberland was staying at her London mansion, and Parsons, utterly penniless, paid her a visit, hoping to induce his good-natured aunt to come to his financial rescue.
— from Remarkable Rogues The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second Edition by Charles Kingston

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— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

leaves me at present
Peace be with you, as thank God it leaves me at present.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill


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