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mode of stating his principle is this

Another mode of stating his principle is this: "To know the finite as such, is also to know the infinite."
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

meeting of some honest people in the

There was a meeting of some honest people in the city, upon the occasion of the discovery of some attempt to stifle the evidence of the witnesses.—Bedloe said he had letters from Ireland, that there were some Tories to be brought over hither, who were privately to murder Dr. Oates and the said Bedloe.
— from A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

middle of September he passed into the

In the middle of September, he passed into the shades of the dungeon.
— from The Dungeons of Old Paris Being the Story and Romance of the Most Celebrated Prisons of the Monarchy and the Revolution by Tighe Hopkins

morning of sunlit hope penned in the

So the "pink fleece of the cloud-sheep," and the "blue, mysterious soul of the lake," inspirations of the "beauty's" earlier years, found sympathy in the "student's" "mellow morning of sunlit hope," penned in the late afternoon of life.
— from Judge Elbridge by Opie Percival Read

made over seven hundred pounds in the

“I have made over seven hundred pounds in the last week,” he said.
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

maintaining or strengthening his position in the

The Traditional Story tested by Original Evidence,’ [1] Father Gerard has set forth all the difficulties he found while sifting the accessible evidence, and has deduced from his examination a result which, though somewhat vague in itself, leaves upon his readers a very distinct impression that the celebrated conspiracy was mainly, if not altogether, a fiction devised by the Earl of Salisbury for the purpose of maintaining or strengthening his position in the government of the country under James I. Such, at least, is what I gather of Father Gerard’s aim from a perusal of his book.
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

mass of snow had plunged into the

But the mass of snow had plunged into the lake without raising it a foot; all had disappeared in the bottomless depths; a mountain lake neither rises nor falls.
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

Mohawk or saying her prayers in the

She might be even then at work in the corn-fields down by the Mohawk, or saying her prayers in the woods behind the castle.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

men of still higher position in the

I cannot help mentioning the results of various conversations I had with two natives of Eastern rank and family employed by the Venerable Mr. Corrie, afterwards Bishop of Madras, and the Rev. Henry Martyn, in Scripture translation, and whose assistance I had used in the study of the languages, as they quite coincide with much which I had the opportunity of hearing among men of still higher position in the native educated community, when attached to the staff of the Governor-General: ‘By the decrees of God,’ said the Mohammedan noble, ‘and the ubiquity of their fleets, armaments, and commerce, it appears plainly that the European nations have become the arbiters of the destinies of the nations of Asia.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

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