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modified are never eradicated and

They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

medicines are now exploded and

Galen's medicines are now exploded and rejected; what Nicholas Meripsa, Mesue, Celsus, Scribanius, Actuarius, &c. writ of old, are most part contemned.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

make a new effort and

His father was about to make a new effort, and this time the chance of success was promising.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

metaphysical axioms never existed at

What feeling shall fill this time, what substance execute this motion, what qualities combine in this being, are as much unanswered questions as if the metaphysical axioms never existed at all.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

most at night especially at

[167] Again, most authorities as quoted by Gutberlet, [168] indicate that most suicides are committed in June, fewest in December; most at night, especially at dawn, fewest at noon, especially between twelve and two o’clock.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

means and not even a

The duel is the last means of thoroughly honourable suicide left to us; but it is unfortunately a circuitous means, and not even a certain one.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

men are not equally apt

(33) If men did not render mutual assistance to each other, no one would have either the skill or the time to provide for his own sustenance and preservation: for all men are not equally apt for all work, and no one would be capable of preparing all that he individually stood in need of.
— from Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1 by Benedictus de Spinoza

made a new envelope and

So Mother made a new envelope and addressed it to Miss Elizabeth Elkins.
— from All About Johnnie Jones by Carolyn Verhoeff

military and naval establishments and

"5. Maximum military and naval establishments and production of arms and munitions.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

miles are now equipped and

Nearly 4,400 miles are now equipped and over 3,000 miles more will have lighting and emergency landing fields by next July.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

my above named executors all

[166] Extract from will of Albert Early, of Madison County, dated the 25th of May, 1839, admitted to probate 25th day of November, 1847: "I give and bequeath unto my above named executors all the negro slaves that I now own or may own ...
— from Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford

money and nothing else and

My Lord Chancellor he minds getting of money and nothing else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the Devil and the Alter, but he will get money if it be to be got."
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

minds a nonentity even as

Hence the fame of Michael Angelo is, to some minds, a nonentity; even as the sun itself would be invisible in vacuo .
— from Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

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