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ourselves but it takes us a long
It is the same thing with ourselves, but it takes us a long while to find it out.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

of Being in the Universe at large
In another sense, however, the Negative Ground of Being, in the Universe at large, or in any given Domain, quickly sinks out of view, and Positive Being becomes the whole of what is commonly regarded.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

of Being in the Universe at large
The Accidents of Being in the Universe at large are therefore the analogues of the oblique cases of Nouns Substantive in the Domain of Language; the Nominative Case representing, on the contrary, the central figure in the particular member of discourse, and that which the accidents or falls ( casus ) are perceived to relate to or affect.
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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