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stern perhaps and the intensity of

Life was stern in those days, too stern perhaps, and the intensity of the struggle against despotism made men narrow and hard.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

speech protesting against the innovations of

‘Varro belongs to the genuine type of old Roman, improved but not altered by Greek learning, with his heart fixed in the past, deeply conservative of everything national, and even in his style of speech protesting against the innovations of the day.’—Cruttwell.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

some princes and the indulgence of

The indifference of some princes, and the indulgence of others, permitted the Christians to enjoy, though not perhaps a legal, yet an actual and public, toleration of their religion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

subordinate parts annexed to it of

Now, every perturbation has many subordinate parts annexed to it of the same kind.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

some pleasure annexed to it or

[1701] Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

State policy as the intelligence of

Returning now to the main subject, although it is true that in one kind of War the political element seems almost to disappear, whilst in another kind it occupies a very prominent place, we may still affirm that the one is as political as the other; for if we regard the State policy as the intelligence of the personified State, then amongst all the constellations in the political sky whose movements it has to compute, those must be included which arise when the nature of its relations imposes the necessity of a great War.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

same purposes as those instruments of

Those which are made of wood and are pierced in this way serve for exactly the same purposes as those instruments of the cult to which English ethnographers have given the name of "bull-roarers."
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

so popular as the instruction of

Towards 1340, Alphonse XI., king of Castile, caused a book on hunting to be compiled for his use; but it was not so popular as the instruction of Gaston Phoebus ( Fig. 132 ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

set papers and things in order

Then up to my chamber, and there set papers and things in order, and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So Prescott added that item of

So Prescott added that item of information.
— from The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Sophia Paleologus and the introduction of

The one at the Sparrow Hills seems to have been most often resorted to in the early days, but with the advent to Russia of Sophia Paleologus and the introduction of western customs, not only was the single palace found inadequate, but Ivan’s successors all built dwellings in the forest or in villages near Moscow where they {43} could go for sport, or when driven from town by fire, pestilence or revolt.
— from The Story of Moscow by Wirt Gerrare

Southern people and the infection of

Secession was the act of a pack of noisy demagogues; but a false idea of honor brought round a majority of the Southern people, and the infection of enthusiasm carried over the remainder.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

still preserved and the image of

The old entrance, however, was still preserved, and the image of the god still faced to the east.
— from Greece Painted by John Fulleylove; described by J.A. McClymont by J. A. (James Alexander) M'Clymont

smaller processes at the inferior outer

The articular ends are remarkable for their depressed oblong character, still preserving the anterior concavity with a small mesial process below, as in cervical vertebræ, and similar but smaller processes at the inferior outer angles of the posterior sub-semicylindrical convexity.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley

silver plate attached to it on

A few months after my return to England the boar's head arrived, set up, and with a silver plate attached to it, on which was an inscription commemorating the adventure.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

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