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school to assume that every natural substance
What right has the peripatetic school to assume that every natural substance is unum per se substantially?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

seemed to attack the entire nervous system
With most of us hunger seemed to attack the entire nervous system, and the constriction of the stomach produced an acute sensation of pain.
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger by Jules Verne

say that against this evil no sufficient
It is superfluous now to say that against this evil no sufficient provision was made, and the result has been perpetual and irreconcilable antagonism.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

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