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of learned Europe have

It is precisely through the influence of Kant's philosophy; through the contemporaneous effect of the unparalleled progress made in all the natural sciences, with regard to which every past age in comparison with our own appears childish; and lastly, through the knowledge of Sanskrit literature, and of those most ancient and widest spread faiths, Brahmanism and Buddhism, which, as far as time and space go, are the most important religions systems of mankind, and, as a matter of fact, are the original native religions of our own race, now well known to be of Asiatic descent—our race, to which in its new strange home they once more send a message across the centuries;—it is because of all this, I say, that the fundamental philosophical convictions of learned Europe have in the course
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

occupation large embankments had

[78] During the Roman occupation large embankments had been built, and during the Middle Ages these had been kept up partly through a commission appointed by the Crown, and partly through the efforts of [lx] the monasteries at Ramsey and Crowland.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

of little employment hath

V.18 The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

OUR LETTERS Eight hours

H2 anchor OUR LETTERS Eight hours of railway travel induce sleep for some persons and insomnia for others with me, any journey prevents my sleeping on the following night.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

of land ended his

In the year of our Lord 676, when Ethelred, king of the Mercians, 595 ravaged Kent with a hostile army, and [pg 242] profaned churches and monasteries, without regard to pity, or the fear of God, in the general destruction he laid waste the city of Rochester; Putta, 596 who was bishop, was absent at that time, but when he understood that his church was ravaged, and everything taken away from it, he went to Sexwulf, bishop of the Mercians, 597 and having received of him a certain church, and a small piece of land, ended his days there in peace; in no way endeavouring to restore his bishopric, for, as has been said above, he was more industrious in ecclesiastical than in worldly affairs; serving God only in that church, and going wherever he was desired, to teach Church music.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

or listening ear Have

"Much of the experienced man I long to hear, If or his certain eye, or listening ear, Have learn'd the fortunes of my wandering lord?"
— from The Odyssey by Homer

or low every honest

In the United States professions are more or less laborious, more or less profitable; but they are never either high or low: every honest calling is honorable.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

One little event had

One little event had come out of another so naturally that Margaret was hardly conscious of what she had done, till she saw the slight look of repugnance on her father's face.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

of leisure exhausts his

A man who, through his amusements in his hours of leisure, exhausts his strength and vitality, vitiates his blood, wears his nerves till his limbs tremble like leaves in the wind, is only half a man, and could in no sense be called first-class.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

old lady embracing him

'God be good to me!' cried the old lady, embracing him; 'it is my innocent boy!' 'My dear old nurse!' cried Oliver.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

of locomotion each has

Their spines are instruments of defence and of locomotion; each has several muscles to work it.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

old lady embracing him

cried the old lady, embracing him; ‘it is my innocent boy!’
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

one last effort he

At midday, after lunch, when he came back with his men to make one last effort, he was surprised to see Zacharie, red and gesticulating, come out of the mine shouting: "She's there!
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

our language expressed his

One new arrival, just learning our language, expressed his contempt for us by exclaiming: "Bah!
— from In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

of Loch Ewe Horisdale

Heglis Loch Ew , for Eaglais Loch Iu (erkless loch ew), Church of Loch Ewe. Horisdale.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

of literary enterprises he

During Stevenson’s first season at Davos, though his mind was full of literary enterprises, he was too ill to do much actual work.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

of living Englishmen had

The domestic political situation, more menacingly turbulent than at any time within the memory of living Englishmen, had been resolved with miraculous rapidity and completeness.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

of lighting enabled him

A flash of lighting enabled him to examine him from head to foot, an operation habitual to him on seeing any new person or thing.
— from Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician by Alexandre Dumas

of land eleven hundred

The school was started about fifteen years ago in a private house with six pupils; now they have twenty acres of land, eleven hundred pupils, and are putting up a first college building to open a freshman class of a hundred this fall—it’s of high school grade now, all Chinese support and management, and non-missionary or Christian, although the principal is an active Christian and thinks Christ’s teachings the only salvation for China.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

of low estate he

He was too great, in his own estimation , to condescend to men of low estate; he was too mighty to listen to the cry of the destitute; and too noble to heed the incessant petitions of the rabble, as all those who complained of existing grievances were denominated by him and his ministers.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

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