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that he regards every act done

I answer, the more we become acquainted with the letter and with the spirit of St. John's narrative, the more we understand that he regards every act done by our Lord, to effect ever so temporary a redemption, for ever so small a body, or so insignificant an individual, as a sign of what He is, of the work in which He is always engaged, of the blessing which He has wrought out and designs for the universe.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

the human race exist as do

Varieties of the human race exist as do varieties of dogs.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

to his roiall estate and dignitie

In this hurlie burlie also the lords and péeres of the realme (by the setting on of the archbishop) were earnestlie bent to haue the king to restore and confirme the grant which his grandfather king Henrie the first had by his charter granted and confirmed to his subiects, which to doo, king John thought greatlie preiudiciall to his roiall estate and dignitie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

to him rather early and did

IV One day I went round to him rather early and did not find him in his study.
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

the Holy Roman Empire a distinction

dubbed him Count of the Holy Roman Empire, a distinction which Gregory Orloff in later years prized more than all the honours Catherine II.
— from Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

two had rubbed elbows and dispositions

He was as florid as Johnson was colorless, and the two had rubbed elbows and dispositions in that same room almost since the house of Burnit had been founded.
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

to have rightly explained as depicting

367 On a certain class of seal-cylinders, moreover, a scene is engraved which Ménant seems to me to have rightly explained as depicting a human sacrifice.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

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