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system most exactly and distinctly

This anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure; and as its cause is some possession or property, which we enjoy, and which is thereby related to us, we here dearly see all the parts of the foregoing system most exactly and distinctly drawn out before us.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

soul must exist after death

For if it is true that any thing living is produced from that which is dead, then the soul must exist after death, otherwise it could not be produced again.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

so much eloquence and depth

But sometimes, I believe, she really had some little gratification in conversing with me; and one bright February morning, during twenty minutes’ stroll along the moor, she laid aside her usual asperity and reserve, and fairly entered into conversation with me, discoursing with so much eloquence and depth of thought and feeling on a subject happily coinciding with my own ideas, and looking so beautiful withal, that I went home enchanted; and on the way (morally) started to find myself thinking that, after all, it would, perhaps, be better to spend one’s days with such a woman than with Eliza Millward; and then I (figuratively) blushed for my inconstancy.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

so many eager accomplices drawing

All her past weaknesses were like so many eager accomplices drawing her toward the path their feet had already smoothed.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

same meaning equally appropriate dignified

[69] for no assignable cause or reason but that of the author's convenience; but if it be in rhyme, by the mere exchange of the final word of each line for some other of the same meaning, equally appropriate, dignified and euphonic.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

sanitate mentis excidit aut dolore

Nunquam sanitate mentis excidit aut dolore capitur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

suspect my every action down

Yet you ought to begin to know me, and not suspect my every action, down to the drinking of a cup of coffee.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

such middle emotions as dramatic

We have no such middle emotions as dramatic interests left.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

same manner Eustath ad Dionys

In the same manner Eustath. ad Dionys.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

so much envy as despise

I had no design to supplant my sister by this complaisant attention; nor, when the consequence of my obsequiousness came to be known, did Sukey so much envy as despise me: I was, however, very well pleased with my success; and having received, from the concurrent opinion of all mankind, a notion that to be rich was to be great and happy, I thought I had obtained my advantages at an easy rate, and resolved to continue the same passive attention, since I found myself so powerfully recommended by it to kindness and esteem.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

Several months elapsed and Dodge

Several months elapsed, and Dodge had felt no ill effects from Prohibition.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

She might effect a diversion

She might effect a diversion in the cause of the people, and shake the foundations of the hitherto despotic power which has so long weighed them down.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

she must eat and drink

Next day, the mother said to Three-Eyes, “This time you shall go and watch if Two-Eyes eats anything when she is out, and if any one fetches her food and drink, for she must eat and drink in secret.”
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

such men effeminate as drinke

Another at Halicarnassus called Salmacis, which is noted to make such men effeminate as drinke of the water of the same.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

sa marche et acheva de

Ce ne fût qu'après cette immolation que le cortége reprit sa marche et acheva de monter jusqu'au Capitole!
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

S MCGOWAN embassy Avenida das

[48] (22) 628-82-98 consulate(s) general: Krakow Portugal: chief of mission: Ambassador Gerald S. MCGOWAN embassy: Avenida das Forcas Armadas, 1600 Lisbon mailing address: PSC 83, APO AE 09726 telephone:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

so much eating and drinking

After this there was tilting at the barriers, the young Earl of Essex and other knights bearing themselves more chivalrously than would seem to comport with so much eating and drinking.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

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