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Thence he went to the British Museum, taking Mr. Solly’s collection of pictures en route ; and after spending three hours at the Museum, he lunched with the Duke of Sussex at Kensington Palace.
— from Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
453 On the outbreak of the English Revolution, occasioned by the despotism of the first two Stuarts, crowds of Puritan exiles returned from Holland and North America to their old home.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz
Each labourer receives, as before, one quarter of corn; each, therefore, receives the produce of 10\18 of a year's labour of one man, that is, the same cost of production; each receives 10/18 of the produce of his own labour, that is, the same proportional wages; and the labourers collectively still receive the same proportion, namely 10/18, of the whole produce.
— from Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
Another enemy of the saint was Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, whom Sozomen, Socrates, Palladius, St. Isidore of Pelusium, and Synesius, accuse of avarice and oppressions to gratify his vanity in building stately churches; of pride, envy, revenge, dissimulation, and an incontrollable love of power and rule, by which he treated other bishops as his slaves, and made his will the rule of justice.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler
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