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ones has represented to
In a symbolic painting, Raphael , himself one of these immortal "naïve" ones, has represented to us this depotentiating of appearance to appearance, the primordial process of the naïve artist and at the same time of Apollonian culture.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

occasioned his return to
Promoted 1st capt. in Jan., 1813, which occasioned his return to England.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

on his resolve to
The atmosphere of the house, in such contrast with that in which he lived, and the mere nearness to her, sent him forth each time with a firmer grip on his resolve to climb the heights.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

of his repletions too
There are others again, who will draw a man’s character from no other helps in the world, but merely from his evacuations;—but this often gives a very incorrect outline,—unless, indeed, you take a sketch of his repletions too; and by correcting one drawing from the other, compound one good figure out of them both.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

on his return the
Immediately on his return the manager, to whom had come an order from the Elysée during the day, took up a pair of pocket pistols, and went down into the vestibule, which communicates by means of a few steps with the courtyard.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

of height reaching to
Opposite the entrance there is a road paved with stone for about three furlongs, which leads through the market-place towards the East, with a breadth of about four hundred feet; and on this side and on that grow trees of height reaching to heaven: and the road leads to the temple of Hermes.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

on his right The
Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure Empyrean where he sits High Thron’d above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view: About him all the Sanctities of Heaven Stood thick as Starrs, and from his sight receiv’d Beatitude past utterance; on his right The radiant image of his Glory sat, His onely Son; On Earth he first beheld Our two first Parents, yet the onely two Of mankind, in the happie Garden plac’t, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love In blissful solitude; he then survey’d Hell and the Gulf between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heav’n on this side Night In the dun Air sublime, and ready now To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feet On the bare outside of this World, that seem’d Firm land imbosom’d without Firmament, Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

of highway robbers then
“What do you think of highway robbers, then?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

of her Relations that
I assured her that She had been deceived by the artifices of her Relations; that I could convince her beyond the power of doubt that my passion had been pure and disinterested; and I asked her what should induce me to seek her in the Convent, were I influenced by the selfish motives which my Enemies had ascribed to me.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

on his return to
The marshal, on his return to Troyes, was embraced and approved by Thibaut count of Champagne, who had been unanimously chosen general of the confederates.
— 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

of His relations to
So, then, we have the double form of our Lord's work, covering the whole ground of His relations to man, set forth in these two clauses, in the one of which God's confirmation of His past revelations by Jesus Christ is treated of, and in the other of which the full and confident assent which men may give to that revelation is set before us.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

of heavy rope that
With this, and a coil of heavy rope that was carried in the car for emergencies, they proceeded to make the temporary repair.
— from The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice; Or, Solving a Wireless Mystery by Allen Chapman

On his return to
On his return to the inn Dave found his faithful assistants guarding the biplane and waiting for orders.
— from Dave Dashaway Around the World; or, A Young Yankee Aviator Among Many Nations by Roy Rockwood

of his regular troops
Now that he was in command of all the forces in Mexico, he withdrew from Taylor most of his regular troops and left him only enough volunteers, as he thought, to hold the line then in possession of the invading army.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

occasioned her return to
Engine-room defects had occasioned her return to harbour, and as these were of a somewhat serious nature, the opportunity was taken to place the destroyer into dockyard hands for at least two months.
— from The Sea Monarch by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

opposed his returning to
I asked him how old he was, and he told me twenty-two; that he was in France doing his military service when the war broke out; that he had been very successful in England, and that his employer had opposed his returning to France, and begged him to take out naturalization papers.
— from On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich

or have reason to
I will not allow of a distant allusion to Clara's marriage with Sir Foster; and the instant I believe, or have reason to suspect , any private attempt to draw Clara into such a hateful connection, that instant I will remove my family from Wetheral, and reside in Scotland."
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

other hand renders the
An adverse majority, on the other hand, renders the measure null.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

of having received the
In a document which will be immediately quoted at length, we find him speaking of having received the usual college education of Scotland, which terminates when the student is fourteen or fifteen years old.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

On her recovering the
On her recovering, the King was the first person who told her that she was the mother of a very fine Princess.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various


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