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special educational religious and philanthropic establishments and
For these purposes it is necessary that the factory be an isolated one; that it should be a community by itself, an imperium in imperio , governed by its own laws, with its own special educational, religious, and philanthropic establishments; and that, above all things, it should be conducted on the principle, or rather practice, of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
— from Bessbrook and Its Linen Mills: A Short Narrative of a Model Temperance Town by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

SIXTH EPOCH RECONSTRUCTION AND PASSING EVENTS APPENDIX
THE CIVIL WAR, SIXTH EPOCH. RECONSTRUCTION AND PASSING EVENTS, * * * * * APPENDIX.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

so elegantly resting as Peter entered and
His father rose from the sofa on which he had been so elegantly resting, as Peter entered, and clasped his hand, though he had seen him at tea a couple of hours before.
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

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