[65] The Decree itself says "nos enfants et descendants males, legitimes et naturels."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
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— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara
The reason is very simple: nearly every employer does not think that a [70] catastrophe, due to his negligence, will ever happen.
— from Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents by National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents
The narrative of her sufferings, upon which she now entered, entirely dissipated the mystery which had so long enveloped the southern buildings of the castle.
— from A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe
To say that he succeeded in representing this pictorially would be to assert that an impossibility had been achieved, but he got nearer to the goal than any other artist before or since, not even excepting D. G. Rossetti and G. F. Watts, whose affinity with Blake’s genius is as close as their manifestation of it is different.
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge
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