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she explained to the Lord of Ravenswood
They met only once a week—Friday was the appointed day—and she explained to the Lord of Ravenswood that they were under the necessity of separating so soon as the bell of a chapel, belonging to a hermitage in the adjoining wood, now long ruinous, should toll the hour of vespers.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

says expressly that the Law of Relativity
Wundt says expressly that the Law of Relativity is "not a law of sensation but a law of Apperception;" and the word Apperception connotes with him a higher intellectual spontaneity.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

self especially to the love of ruling
For, as has been said before, all lusts are of love, for it is love that covets; and as there are two evil loves to which all lusts have reference, namely, love of the world and love of self, it follows that the lust of the ninth commandments has reference to love of the world, and the lust of this commandment to love of self, especially to the love of ruling.
— from Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg


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