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ourselves free from every disturbing

Again, we must keep ourselves free from every disturbing emotion, not only from desire and fear, but also from excessive pain and pleasure, and from anger, so that we may enjoy that calm of soul and freedom from care which bring both moral stability and dignity of character.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Or Fancy fair engage Danger

All that stern Wisdom could desire, Or Fancy fair engage— Danger-defying youth was there, And calm experienced age.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 by Various

our foes from every dumb

You know that this miraculous gift is denied to me, to Roland and to many, as in our Duplant, Cavalier, or Salomon, when all recollection vanishes and every ordinary human feeling becomes extinct, in the same manner does it happen to me, when we at length fight in the tumult, or pass by triumphantly the churches of our foes: from every dumb brick their scorn grins at me, from every beam the blood of our martyrs so arrogantly shed cries out to me; then, when the malignant followers of their priests sneak up to me with feigned supplications, then indeed, something roars within me for revenge, like a lion if he has once tasted blood, the sword and dagger pierce through their breasts as they kneel before me, my whole heart bounds, when the laughing flames rise up triumphantly through the edifice, when in the blaze the beams are consumed and fall down and bury women and children in the red glow.
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck

of fresh fish every day

If you are furnished with a harpoon or barbed piece of iron, you can have a fine supply of fresh fish every day during your voyage.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

of four for each diocese

Then we have two hundred and forty select schools, or an average of four for each diocese, attended by boarders or those living with their relations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

of Finance for External Debt

The person in charge of the funds in 1998 was none other than Mikhail Kasyanov, Russia's current Prime Minister - at the time, Deputy Minister of Finance for External Debt.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin

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