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Pyrrhus rex Epiri cum iterata
Battle of Heraclea, 280 B.C. Pyrrhus rex Epiri cum iterata Tarentinorum legatione additis Samnitium et
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

partly rebuilt every city in
He has rebuilt Paris and has partly rebuilt every city in the state.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

provision respecting elections contained in
HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: THE more candid opposers of the provision respecting elections, contained in the plan of the convention, when pressed in argument, will sometimes concede the propriety of that provision; with this qualification, however, that it ought to have been accompanied with a declaration, that all elections should be had in the counties where the electors resided.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Popoff reaching East Cape in
The Russians completed their knowledge of their Arctic coasts, Popoff reaching East Cape in 1711, and bringing back an account not only of various islands, but also of a continental shore eastward.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

Pierre repeated Edmond contemptuously I
”‘ Pierre !’ repeated Edmond, contemptuously; ‘I will not be compared with a—’ ”‘Hush!’ said Edmée, putting her little hand on his mouth before he could pronounce the word; ‘don’t say it, or you will make me very angry!’
— from The Little Old Portrait by Mrs. Molesworth

Port Royal edition called it
The Port Royal edition called it: "Against the Indifference of Atheists;" Condorcet headed it: "On the Need of Concern for the Proofs of a Future Life;" Bossut: "On the Need of a Study of Religion."
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

profound religious expression contained in
Even to-day there are many clergymen and church musicians who have but a faint conception of the affluence of lovely melody and profound religious expression contained in this vast body of mediaeval music.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

PATERNOSTER ROW ERRATA Corrected in
With 19 Illustrations LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW ERRATA [Corrected in this etext] Page 16, line 4, read “ without ” for with .
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau

provision respecting elections contained in
Tuesday, February 26, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: THE more candid opposers of the provision respecting elections, contained in the plan of the convention, when pressed in argument, will sometimes concede the propriety of that provision; with this qualification, however, that it ought to have been accompanied with a declaration, that all elections should be had in the counties where the electors resided.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Pirke R Elieser ch iii
" Thus also the Pirke R. Elieser , ch. iii., where, with a reference to the passage before us, the name of the Messiah is mentioned among the seven things created before the world existed, viz., along with the Law, Hell, Paradise, the Throne of Glory, the Temple, Repentance; compare Schöttgen ii. S. 213.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

perhaps rather extravagant compliment is
It is written in a style of sufficiently elegant versification; but what in Callimachus is a courtly, though perhaps rather extravagant compliment, is in Statius a servile and disgusting adulation of the loathsome monster, whose vices he so disgracefully flattered.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

parabatur repressa est Caesaris interdicta
Itaque fuga, quae parabatur, repressa est; Caesaris interdicta: "Si te secundo lumine hic offendero—" respuuntur; bona de Domitio, praeclara de Afranio fama est.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero


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