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nostros iustitia culta est ut
In quo tantopere apud nostros iustitia culta est, ut ii, qui civitates aut nationes devictas bello in fidem recepissent, earum patroni essent more maiorum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

nesciat in causa est ut
Quod unusquisque propria mala novit, aliorum nesciat, in causa est, ut se inter alios miserum putet.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

never I confess exactly understood
I never, I confess, exactly understood the intimacy existing between you, but it must be sincere.”
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

narrower it came even unto
The said men did, moreover, certify unto us that there was the way and beginning of the great river of Hochelaga, and ready way to Canada, which river the farther it went the narrower it came, even unto Canada, and that then there was fresh water which went so far upwards that they had never heard of any man who had gone to the head of it, and that there is no other passage but with small boats.'
— from The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier by Stephen Leacock

novelistic in casting emphasis upon
And it is possible, as we have seen, that modern fiction should be at once epic and novelistic in content and in mood,—epic in resuming all aspects of a certain phase of life and in exhibiting a social struggle, and novelistic in casting emphasis upon personal details of character and in depicting intimate emotions.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

no idea can exist unless
(3) The independent, real existence of things is affirmed with emphasis in the Second Dialogue ( ibid. , p. 307): "It is evident that the things I perceive are my own ideas, and that no idea can exist unless it be in a mind.
— from Evolution by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

natura ita comparatum esset ut
In this uncertainty, there cannot be wanting and there is not wanting the thought that rights are not indeed an eternal category, but a historical and transitory fact; and as Spinoza had already said, si cum humana natura ita comparatum esset ut homines id quod maxime utile est maxime cuperent, nulla esset opus arte ad concordiam et fidem ; Fichte thus looked upon the juridical State simply as a State of necessity opposed to the State of reason : and when perfection has been attained and there is complete accord of all in the common end, "the State" (he [Pg 551] said) "disappears as a legislative and compulsive force."
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

nor is cream ever used
Butter is very seldom made by these people, nor is cream ever used for that purpose, as it scarcely rises in sufficient quantity.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linné

note ib capital expended upon
Railways, English, miles constructed from 1843 to 1867, 360 ; published traffic receipts incorrect, note , ib. ; capital expended upon them, 28 , 40 ; revenue from passengers and goods, train mileage, working expenses, 40 ; Irish, 43 ; Scotch, ib. ; rolling stock upon British, 45 ; continual development of the system, 47 ; advantages of, to the community, 56 ; number of passengers carried on them, 57 ; their importance in the conveyance of food, 70 ; hostility of the Post Office to, 73 , 146 ; present arrangements with the department, 105 ; amounts paid to them, 106 , 138 ; speed on, 109 ; gauge of, note , 110 ; Royal Commission upon, 115 ; character of the report of the Royal Commissioners thereon, 116 ; recommendations and opinions as regards railways and the Post Office, 119 ; impossible to pass a general act as proposed, 122 ; railways less costly proportionately than mail coaches, 137 ; immense facilities they afford the Post Office, 139 ; their duties towards the department and the public, 144 , 145 ;
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

nor I could ever understand
The authority for excluding all liturgical worship from our places of assembly, neither he nor I could ever understand.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

no Idea can exist unless
It is evident that the Things I perceive are my own Ideas, and that no Idea can exist, unless it be in a Mind.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

never I confess exactly understood
I never, I confess, exactly understood the intimacy existing between you, but it must be sincere."
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 by George Meredith


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