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todos esos países en una
—Pues esa causa procede de un punto de vista propio del americano del norte; punto de vista que resulta de abrazar a todos esos países en una denominación común, como es la de
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

the eucharist penance extreme unction
According to Catholic doctrine grace is imparted to the believer by means of certain rites: baptism, confirmation, the eucharist, penance, extreme unction, holy orders, and matrimony.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

the evolution principle enables us
Where the need of external co-operation predominates the ethics of enmity develops; where internal, peaceful co-operation is the chief social need the ethics of amity results: and the evolution principle enables us to infer that, as among certain small tribes in the past, so in the great cultivated nations of the future, the life of amity will unqualifiedly prevail.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The editio princeps et unica
The editio princeps et unica of the Latin Commentary on the De Anima ( περὶ ψυχῆς ) of Aristotle, made by Alexander de Hales (i.e. probably Hailes near Winchcombe) the doctor irrefragabilis ( d. 1245), to be distinguished from Alexander de Ales or Alesius.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

the Expedition proved entirely useless
No record was made of the humidity of the atmosphere, as the Hygrometer provided for the use of the Expedition, proved entirely useless.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

to engage prince Eugene until
Philip proceeded from Naples to Final under convoy of the French fleet which had brought him to Italy; here he had an interview with the duke of Savoy, who began to be alarmed at the prospect of the French king’s being master of the Milanese; and, in a letter to the duke de Vendôme, he forbade him to engage prince Eugene until he himself should arrive in the camp.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

the Electoral Princess Elizabeth Ulrica
Also a notice of his divorced wife, the Electoral Princess Elizabeth Ulrica of Brunswick.
— from W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, October 1858 by W. Kent and Co.

the Engineer Pull em up
Screamed the Engineer "Pull 'em up quick, then!" advised Ned.
— from Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope by Victor Appleton

the eternal powers equally unfathomable
Are not the decrees of the eternal powers equally unfathomable and indisputable?
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

to Escovedo Perez enlarged upon
In another letter to Escovedo, Perez enlarged upon the impropriety, the impossibility of Don John's leaving the Netherlands at that time.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 25: 1577, part II by John Lothrop Motley

the ethical principle entirely upon
The Abolitionists had assumed to have the ethical principle entirely upon their side, and this had not, down to 1836, been clearly disputed by the slaveholders.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess


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