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Thomas Esq M P Sturt Charles

M. P. Rodney, James, Esq. Rivington, and Sons, booksellers, 20 copies Robson and Clarke, booksellers, 25 copies S Salisbury, Marquis of, 2 copies Salisbury, Marchioness of St. Albans, Duke of Stanley, Thomas, Esq. M. P. Sturt, Charles, Esq. M. P. Speke, Mrs. Swale, John, Esq. Smyth, John, Esq.
— from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip

the Euphrates mouth prove so close

The trade records of the black-headed perhaps Dravidian-speaking Sumris of the Euphrates mouth prove so close relations with the peninsula of Sinai and Egypt as to make a similar connection with Western India probable as far back as b.c. 6000.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

to elevated minds playful satire can

While the satire of pathos is only adapted to elevated minds, playful satire can only be adequately represented by a heart imbued with beauty.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

to ecclesiastical marriage properly so called

This new and more liberal form of lay tradition led directly to the gifta by the priest, or to ecclesiastical marriage properly so called.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

this expedition Mr Patteson suddenly came

Some effect had already been produced, the people declared that there had been much less of fighting since the missionaries had spoken to them eighteen months back, and they had given up some of the charms by which they used to destroy each other; but there was still much carrying of bows; and on the way home from this expedition, Mr. Patteson suddenly came on six men with bows bent and arrows pointed in his direction.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

the Eleusinian Mysteries properly so called

Like the Eleusinian Mysteries, properly so called, they included dramatic representations of the rape of Persephone and the wanderings of Demeter; in addition, according to Stephen Byzantium, to certain Dionysian representations.
— from The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright

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