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of record especially by

For it is not probable, that actions so illustrious, and calculated to foster pride and vanity, should be unknown, or if known, that they should not be thought worthy of record, especially by writers of the greatest credit.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

out remove expel banish

āscūfan 2 to drive out, remove, expel, banish , Æ: push ( away ), give up ( to ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

of railway enterprise but

Order and freedom, reconciliation of, 141 , 142 Over-crowding prevented, 88 Owen, A. K., Experiment of, 98 P Parks and gardens, 22 , 24 , 39 ; cost of, 62 Parliamentary powers unnecessary in the early stages of railway enterprise, but requisite later; so in relation to the reform initiated by proposed experiment, 126 , 134 Pensions, 28 , 65 Petavel, Capt., 61 Philanthropic institutions, 27 , 65 , 66 Plan, importance of in building cities, 51 Playgrounds.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

only recent events but

Not only recent events, but all previous life was a blank.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

of Rhodes edited by

Nicomachean Ethics, 1819; mainly from text of Bekker, by D. P. Chase, 1847; revised 1861, and later editions with an introductory essay by G. H. Lewes (Camelot Classics), 1890; re-edited by J. M. Mitchell (New Universal Library), 1906, 1910; with an introductory essay by Prof. J.H. Smith (Everyman's Library), 1911; by R.W.Browne (Bohn's Classical Library), 1848, etc.; by R. Williams, 1869, 1876; by W. M. Hatch and others (with translation of paraphrase attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes), edited by E. Hatch, 1879; by F, H. Peters, 1881; J. E. C. Welldon, 1892; J. Gillies (Lubbock's Hundred Books), 1893.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

of reason even beyond

Now whether or not this harmony rests upon the fact, that just as nature does not inhere in appearances or in their source (the sensibility) itself, but only in so far as the latter is in relation to the understanding, as also a systematic unity in applying the understanding to bring about an entirety of all possible experience can only belong to the understanding when in relation to reason; and whether or not experience is in this way mediately subordinate to the legislation of reason: may be discussed by those who desire to trace the nature of reason even beyond its use in metaphysics, into the general principles of a history of nature; I have represented this task as important, but not attempted its solution, in the book itself.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

of relieving encreased by

In short, the whole scene was so gloomy and melancholy, that it threw my spirits into the lowest dejection; which my husband discerning, instead of relieving, encreased by two or three malicious observations.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

often regarded even by

[730] The stars are often regarded, even by the Australians, as the land of souls and mythical personages, as will be established in the next chapter: that means that they pass as being a very different world from that of the living.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Of Roman Empire Between

Division Of Roman Empire Between Sons Of Theodosius.—Part I. Final Division Of The Roman Empire Between The Sons Of Theodosius.—Reign Of Arcadius And Honorius—Administration Of Rufinus And Stilicho.—Revolt And Defeat Of Gildo In Africa.
— 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 Roman emperors by

Since Leo III., in the year 800, had renewed the line of Roman emperors by crowning Charlemagne, the ministration of the pope in an imperial coronation had been held essential, and had gradually enabled the Holy See to put forward undefined claims of a right to confirm the vote of the German electors.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

or real equilibrium but

In all such cases the system may be regarded as undergoing change and as tending towards a state of true or real equilibrium, but with such slowness that no change is observed.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

ordinary railway employee better

The combination of life with disability insurance meets the need of the ordinary railway employee better than any other combination.
— from Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by James Boyd Kennedy

of Religion Edited by

English Leaders of Religion Edited by A. M. M. STEDMAN, M.A. With Portrait, crown 8vo, 2s.
— from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

own recent explorations beyond

During his own recent explorations beyond the lines, he heard much that warned him that the British were planning something of grave importance.
— from Then Marched the Brave by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

OF RELIGION Edited by

LEADERS OF RELIGION Edited by H.C. BEECHING, M.A. With Portraits, crown 8vo.
— from The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

of rage exhausted by

When one thinks of the appalling amount of rage exhausted by poor humans upon wrong, the energy of indignation, whether issued or suppressed, and how little it has done to right wrong, to draw acknowledgment or amends from self-satisfied insolence, he naturally asks what becomes of so much vital force.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

of relationship existing between

Along the remainder of the sides within lie the other occupants, either in groups or singly, depending on the degree of relationship existing between 228 them.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

once recognized even by

Among the Athenians who nobly fought at Marathon, and who also took part in the battle of Salamis, was the tragedian Æschylus; and so much did he distinguish himself in the capacity of soldier, that, in the picture which the Athenians caused to be painted representing the former battle, the figure of Æschylus held so prominent a place as to be at once recognized, even by a casual observer.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

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