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negative evidence according to

It was not then as a mode of proof that the combat was received, nor as making negative evidence, (according to the supposition of Montesquieu; 139 but in every case the right to offer battle was founded on the right to pursue by arms the redress of an injury; and the judicial combat was fought on the same principle, and with the same spirit, as a private duel.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

New Exchange and then

Up, and with W. Hewer to the New Exchange, and then he and I to the cabinet-shops, to look out, and did agree, for a cabinet to give my wife for a New-year’s gift; and I did buy one cost me L11, which is very pretty, of walnutt-tree, and will come home to-morrow.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

never eradicated and they

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

not exist and to

Really priceless old glass and china can't be replaced because duplicates do not exist and to use it three times a day would be to court destruction; replicas, however, are scarcely less beautiful and can be replaced if chipped.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

natures each acquiring the

On the contrary, when each of two persons, instead of being a nothing, is a something; when they are attached to one another, and are not too much unlike to begin with; the constant partaking in the same things, assisted by their sympathy, draws out the latent capacities of each for being interested in the things which were at first interesting only to the other; and works a gradual assimilation of the tastes and characters to one another, partly by the insensible modification of each, but more by a real enriching of the two natures, each acquiring the tastes and capacities of the other in addition to its own.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

new experience and they

" Now, if he, or one of his friends, should happen to get wings some day, and should just take a turn through space, and should happen also to find a limit to phenomena, and, skirting in astonishment along that boundary, should happen to light upon an open place and a bridge, which invited them to pass across to another sphere or system of phenomena, made by another "Power,"—said bridge being constructed "'alf and 'alf" by the two aforesaid Powers,—then there would be nothing to do but for the said explorer to fly back again to England, as fast as ever he could, and relate to all the other Limitists his new experience; and they, having no ground on which to argue against or above experience, must needs receive the declaration of their colaborator, with its inevitable conclusion, that the Power by which we are here acted upon is limited, and so is not omnipresent.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

now embarked and thoroughly

I was now embarked, and thoroughly determined on any voyage the company would take me on.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

not encased and the

And I soon found out why: the clock is not encased and the weight of the pendulum hangs free.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

notes echoed amid the

In its topmost branches the wood-pigeon built her nest, and the cuckoo carried out his usual vocal performances, and his well-known notes echoed amid the boughs; and in autumn, when the leaves looked like beaten copper plates, the birds of passage would come and rest upon the branches before taking their flight across the sea.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

new experiences and traveling

Each trip gave us new experiences, and traveling so much as we were, there were few outfits in the cattle country that knew the trails and the country as we did.
— from The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Nat Love

not even allowed to

The vessel was not even allowed to go into port, although needing repairs, and in fact unseaworthy; and as to healing the sick, selfish Paper Jack thought only of solacing his own infirmities.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

not enough already to

I am decidedly of opinion that he more than suspects who are his enemies; and, in that case, you know what consequences would ensue; besides, have we not enough already to encounter?
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

not entirely at the

Viewing it with this question in our minds, I think we must be struck by one fact, this namely, that the universal possession of land which was provided for in Israel and [372] so anxiously maintained is the only provision known against the growth of a wage-earning class largely, if not entirely, at the mercy of the employer.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

note even after the

My own Itinéraire does not give many more details on Granada; I content myself with saying: "The Alhambra seems to me to be worthy of note, even after the temples of Greece.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

not entirely abandon the

The assertion is qualified in the text, but he could not entirely abandon the affectation of pretending that he collected his works to escape the disgrace of the pieces which were falsely attributed to him, and not to obtain credit from his own performances.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

nephew exchange all the

Not ten sentences did aunt and nephew exchange, all the way from East Keaton down to Cambridge.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

not even attempt to

Kennedy did not even attempt to study them.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

new earth and the

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
— from Satan by Lewis Sperry Chafer

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