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— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
eit' epi men tês tracheias artêrias ouk aporeis enallax pote men eisô paragousês eis ton pneumona to pneuma, pote d' exô, kai tôn kata tas rhinas porôn kai holou tou stomatos hôsautôs oud' einai soi dokei thaumaston oude paradoxon, ei, di' hou mikrô prosthen eisô parekomizeto to pneuma, dia toutou nyn ekpempetai, peri de tôn ex hêpatos eis entera te kai gastera kathêkousôn phlebôn aporeis kai soi thaumaston einai phainetai, dia tôn autôn anadidosthai th' hama tên trophên eis hêpar helkesthai t' ex ekeinou palin eis gastera? diorisai dê to hama touto poterôs legeis.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Practically all the ethnic elements, perhaps even the Negrito in the far past, combined in his blood.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig
The ethical energy par excellence has to go farther and choose which interest out of several, equally coercive, shall become supreme.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
—Tampoco es ello posible excepto en los países más ricos y adelantados, y eso sólo en ciertas zonas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
I ordered a bombardment to be commenced the next morning at five A.M., to be followed by an assault at six o'clock; but the enemy evacuated Petersburg early in the morning.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
I am obliged to earn eight pennies every day, therefore was I forced to work yesterday.”
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott
Then I remembered the natural law, that internal atmospheric pressure prevents any consciousness of the enormous external pressure exerted by an atmosphere forty-five miles thick, and applied the law, saying, "These books have all been upon the inside of my head, of course I shall not feel them on the outside."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
For a less tolerant episcopal view, see Bishop Otway of Killala to Essex, Essex Papers , ed.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell
So we pooled the food, and divided it into three exactly equal parts, each one of us to hide his share, and to eat it as quickly or as slowly as he pleased.
— from The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The words in the old form of coronation oath, as preserved in a bill of parliament under Henry IV., concerning which this grammatico-political contention arose, are the following: "Concedis justas leges et consuetudines esse tenendas, et promittis per te eas esse protegendas, et ad honorem Dei corroborandas, quas vulgus elegerit , secundum vires tuas?"
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam
It will give an opportunity to be more magnanimous and generous, to act kindly and to be more noble and high-spirited and will cause you to exert every possible effort to please.
— from Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration, Book one by C. J. (Casper James) Coffman
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