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to enforce and refrain our outward members
If the heart will not lay aside those vicious motions, and the fantasy those fond imaginations, we have another form of government to enforce and refrain our outward members, that they be not led by our passions.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the educational and recreative opportunity of most
They represent all the educational and recreative opportunity of most of the adults.
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

the erudition and risibility of our modern
A passage which I can refer only to the erudition and risibility of our modern surgeons and anatomists.
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

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