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reign of Justice and Vataces a
I. Under the reign of Justice and Vataces, a dispute arose 12 between two officers, one of whom accused the other of maintaining the hereditary right of the Palæologi
— 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

rules of justice are violated and
By this proceeding, my Lords, the national honor is disgraced, all the rules of justice are violated, and every sanction, human and divine, trampled upon.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

rivalship or jealousy and vanity and
Having never met with competitors, she had not experienced the grievances of rivalship or jealousy; and vanity and coquetry were hardly known to her by name.
— from The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale by Unknown

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