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theory are based upon no sounder
It is needless to state that the analogies which Lord Kingsborough finds in America in support of his theory are based upon no sounder foundation.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

to argument based upon natural science
When, however, the doctor passes to argument based upon natural science, we find what he adduces worthy of our attention, were it but for the inquiries which it suggests.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

think as Ben ud niver see
And to think as Ben 'ud niver see the face
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

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