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small princesses is completed at the eastern
The circle of kingly tombs, which include those of two small princesses, is completed at the eastern end by the memorial of Henry V. The chantry chapel above is apparently in the shape of the King's initial, but this proves to be a mere coincidence, as the letter H was made after a different pattern in the fifteenth century.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.

slow progress in civilisation and the evolution
The Stone Age itself was a long era of great if slow progress in civilisation, and the evolution of the practices and ideas which emerge as the concomitants of its agricultural stage, when closely regarded, bear testimony to the mind’s capacity for religious progress in the light of experience and intelligent experiment, and at the same time to the errors into which it fell.
— from Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by E. (Edward) Anwyl


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