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performed in play Pleasing all
Petulant madness contends with itself Philopoemen: paying the penalty of my ugliness Philosophy Philosophy has discourses proper for childhood Philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die Philosophy is that which instructs us to live Philosophy looked upon as a vain and fantastic name Phusicians cure by by misery and pain Physic Physician worse physicked Physician: pass through all the diseases he pretends to cure Physician’s “help”, which is very often an obstacle Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick Physicians fear men should at any time escape their authority Physicians were the only men who might lie at pleasure Physicians: earth covers their failures Pinch the secret strings of our imperfections Pitiful ways and expedients to the jugglers of the law Pity is reputed a vice amongst the Stoics Plato angry at excess of sleeping than at excess of drinking Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age Plato said of the Egyptians, that they were all physicians Plato says, that the gods made man for their sport Plato will have nobody marry before thirty Plato: lawyers and physicians are bad institutions of a country Plays of children are not performed in play Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit Pleasure of telling (a pleasure little inferior to that of doing Possession begets a contempt of what it holds and rules Practical Jokes:
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

p iii PERPETUAL PEACE A
[p. iii] PERPETUAL PEACE A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY BY IMMANUEL KANT 1795 TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY M. CAMPBELL SMITH, M.A. WITH A PREFACE BY PROFESSOR LATTA LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

parts in proper proportion as
But there is no reason why, for instance, the wing of a bat, or the fin of a porpoise, should not have been sketched out with all their parts in proper proportion, as soon as any part became visible.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Present Imperfect Perfect Pluperfect Active
The tenses of the subjunctive are Present Imperfect Perfect Pluperfect Active and Passive 343.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

perverse in pleasure pine And
"The wise men know all evil things Under the twisted trees, Where the perverse in pleasure pine And men are weary of green wine
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

precedent is playing Patience and
But Miss Bull, against all precedent, is playing 'Patience,' and here is Mr. Rasper inventing.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

Papers in pulpit Paradise and
'Od, freend, ye hae had a lang spell on't sin' I left,' 'Od, ye're a lang lad; God gie ye grace,' Old lady speaking of her own death, Old sermons, preaching of, Old woman, remarks of, on the usefulness of money, 'On the contrary, sir,' 'Ony dog micht soon become a greyhound by stopping here,' 'Oor Jean thinks a man perfect salvation,' 'Oor John swears awfu',' Organ, mark of distinction, Organs becoming more common, 'Ou, there's jist me and anither lass,' Papers in pulpit, Paradise and Wesleyan minister, Parishioner, coolness of, when made an elder of the kirk, Paul, Dr., his anecdotes of idiots, Paul, Saunders, of Banchory, famous for drinking, Perth, Lady, remark to a Frenchman on French cookery, Penurious laird and Fife elder, Pestilence that walketh in darkness--What is it?
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

populations in particular pools and
In September, 1959, the shocker was used in other sections in order to estimate populations in particular pools and riffles, to measure variability in the fauna between areas having slightly different habitat, and to record movement of marked individuals in a short section of the stream.
— from Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by James E. Deacon

prayers in public places as
This is an allusion to the practice of certain clerics and religious leaders of earlier Dispensations who, out of hypocrisy and affectation, and in order to win the praise of their followers, would ostentatiously mutter prayers in public places as a demonstration of their piety.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

preserve its proper position and
The injunction to "let every man sing in his own place" was intended as a warning to each of the three estates of the realm to preserve its proper position and not to attempt to encroach on each other's prerogative.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs

put in Peter Pegg and
"Ay, an' let us see what can be done for Geordie, too," put in Peter Pegg, and his long neck seemed to get longer at every syllable, while his big eye made a great attempt to wink and to look backward, as if he expected to see someone coming from behind.
— from The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by James C. Welsh

Phase I projectile points and
Plate 21 Topanga Culture Phase I projectile points and blades from LAn-1.
— from The Topanga Culture: Final Report on Excavations, 1948 by Adan E. (Adan Eduardo) Treganza

poor in pamphlets published at
To our minds such surrender, left unchallenged, would be a stain on all who submitted to it, and we decided that faulty as the book was in many respects it had yet become the symbol of a great principle, of the right to circulate physiological knowledge among the poor in pamphlets published at a price they could afford to pay.
— from Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Besant

proceeds iterum post paucos annos
Having mentioned his final escape from the traders, he proceeds: "iterum post paucos annos in Britanniis eram cum parentibus meis."
— from Boulogne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town by William Fleming


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