They say they'll carry the election this time or kill every Nigger in the district.
— from Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne
At every step we tread on kindred earth, Nor know the spot that gave our fathers birth.
— from Enthusiasm and Other Poems by Susanna Moodie
The task of keeping everything n order is now easy, as you may believe, when I tell you the whole of our pleasure-grounds, as you are pleased to term them, receive no other attention than what is bestowed by children under twelve years of age.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier
The points in Locke's doctrines which invited a further advance were the following: Locke proclaims that our knowledge extends no further than our ideas, and that truth consists in the agreement of ideas among themselves, not in the agreement of ideas with things.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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