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still commonly called would rather pull
The rebels (as they were still commonly called), would rather pull the national government down to the ground than restore it, but the entire ransomed race desired to build it up.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

same cause cannot without renewal produce
Force being the cause, and motion the effect produced 223 by it on matter, to say that matter is inert, or has inertia , as it is termed, is only to say that the cause is expended in producing its effect, and that the same cause cannot (without renewal) produce double or triple its own proper effect.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

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