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problems upon limited external resources
This is in fact the situation that has been already under discussion at such length above and the economic quality of which we are just now in quest arises from neither more nor less than the fact of our dependence in the working out of our personal problems upon limited external resources.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

pinned upon Lord Eldon relates
One of the best 'Northern Circuit stories' pinned upon Lord Eldon relates to a challenge which an indignant suitor is said to have sent to Law and John Scott.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Pioneers under Lieutenant Earle Royal
Colonel Henry’s command consisted of 400 men of the 4th Mounted Infantry Corps, with two pom-poms; Brigade troops consisting of J Battery Royal Horse Artillery, New South Wales Field Hospital, under Major Fiaschi, and New South Wales Bearer Company, under Major Eames; the Mounted Pioneers, under Lieutenant Earle, Royal Engineers, Corps of Scouts, and Telegraph Section.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke

patria ubique lex et religio
Paulus Orosius expresses this in his Historæ adversus paganos , in such accents as no Græco-Roman historian had been able to utter: Ubique patria, ubique lex et religio mea est....
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce


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