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name of the English people and demanded
This declaration sought to establish the right of the army to speak in the name of the English people, and demanded the banishment from office of all who spoke ill of it.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

note of the editions published at different
I will give the title at length, and I will add, at the same time, a note of the editions published at different epochs, in different countries, in different languages,—a note which is to be found in the edition of Madrid in 1773.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

nature of their entire proceedings and discussions
In regard to it the editor of the Memphis Appeal writes: The teachers of the colored schools of the city and county deserve especial commendation for the interest they take in the leading educational questions of the day, and for the efforts they are making to reach wise and correct conclusions, and if we may judge of the nature of their entire proceedings and discussions from the paper on practical education presented before the Institute yesterday, and printed in another column of this morning’s Appeal , the Institute has certainly been a success in point of ability.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 08, August, 1879 by Various

nimblest Ordinary that ever penned a dying
They set forth their depredation, as a victorious general might record his triumphs, and they excel the nimblest Ordinary that ever penned a dying speech in all the gifts of the historian.
— from A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley


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