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specialized pursuit in later life
Only in this way can there be on the part of the educator and of the one educated a genuine discovery of personal aptitudes so that the proper choice of a specialized pursuit in later life may be indicated.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

sue parole il ladro le
Inferno: Canto XXV Al fine de le sue parole il ladro le mani alzo` con amendue le fiche, gridando: <>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

ses passions il les laissait
[1] The young rake whose adventures were sung by De Musset may afford an example of the same disaggregation, composed of the most violent kind of passions: Ce n'était pas Rolla qui gouvernait sa vie: C'étaient ses passions; il les laissait aller, Comme un pâtre assoupi regarde l'eau couler....
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

so pure in life laughed
Even Condorcet, himself so pure in life, laughed at people wasting time in quenching the desires of the flesh; but Turgot vindicated purity as well as practised it, and reached a level of principle, as of conduct, which in the eighteenth century was unfortunately almost unique.
— from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Sadler Pottery in Liverpool Leece
State of the Streets; Dale Street; The obstinate Cobbler; The Barber; Narrowness of Dale-street; The Carriers; Highwaymen; Volunteer Officers Robbed; Mr. Campbell’s Regiment; The Alarm; The Capture; Improvement in Lord Street; Objections to Improvement; Castle Ditch; Dining Rooms; Castle-street; Roscoe’s Bank; Brunswick-street; Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Cable Street; Gas Lights; Oil Lamps; Link Boys; Gas Company’s Advertisement; Lord-street; Church-street; Ranelagh-street; Cable-street; Redcross-street; Pond in Church-street; Hanover-street; Angled Houses; View of the River; Whitechapel; Forum in Marble-street; Old Haymarket; Limekiln-lane; Skelhorn-street; Limekilns; London-road; Men Hung in ‘45; Gallows Field; White Mill; The Supposed Murder; The Grave found; Islington Market; Mr. Sadler; Pottery in Liverpool; Leece-street; Pothouse lane; Potteries in Toxteth Park; Watchmaking; Lapstone Hall; View of Everton; Old Houses; Clayton-square; Mrs. Clayton; Cases-street; Parker-street; Banastre street; Tarleton-street; Leigh-street; Mr. Rose and the Poets; Mr. Meadows and his Wives; Names of old streets; Dr. Solomon; Fawcett and Preston’s Foundry; Button street; Manchester-street; Iron Works; Names of Streets, etc. page iv p. iv CHAPTER VII.
— from Recollections of Old Liverpool by James Stonehouse

soon procured in London listened
Even the two new sons-in-law whom his ability to [56] clothe them had soon procured in London, listened impatiently, once they had safely passed under the Canopy and were ensconced in plush parlours of their own.
— from Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill


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