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only receive a commission large enough

Industrialists will be able to make use of centralized labor agencies, which will only receive a commission large enough to ensure their continuance.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Ogilvie rehearses a characteristic later eighteenth

Ogilvie rehearses a characteristic later eighteenth-century view of the imagination and makes again the conventional distinctions between faculties appropriate to philosophy and to poetry.
— from An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by John Ogilvie

our reader as Clinton L Estrange

This was said to one who under the name of Clarence Linden has played the principal part in our drama, and whom now, by the death of his brother succeeding to the honours of his house, we present to our reader as Clinton L’Estrange, Earl of Ulswater.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

of rails and cedar logs eating

In less time than that taken by well-appointed kitchens to furnish “Hot Meals to Order” the four were sitting on their blankets around a comfortable fire of rails and cedar logs, eating hard bread and broiled fat pork, and drinking strong black coffee, which the magic of the open air had transmuted into delightfully delicate and relishable viands.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

of reasonable and conscious life evoking

Art is the expression of reasonable and conscious life, evoking in us both the deepest consciousness of existence and the highest feelings and loftiest thoughts.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

our reader as Clinton L Estrange

This was said to one who under the name of Clarence Linden has played the principal part in our drama, and whom now, by the death of his brother succeeding to the honours of his house, we present to our reader as Clinton L'Estrange, Earl of Ulswater.
— from The Disowned — Volume 08 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

of Russy a charming little expedition

The second time I went to Blois I took a carriage for Chambord, and came back by the Chateau de Cheverny and the forest of Russy, - a charming little expedition, to which the beauty of the afternoon (the finest in a rainy season that was spotted with bright days) contributed not a little.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

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