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the omission of them is no great
'DEAR MADAM,—You may perhaps think me negligent that I have not written to you again upon the loss of your brother; but condolences and consolations are such common and such useless things, that the omission of them is no great crime: and my own diseases occupy my mind, and engage my care.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

three one of them is not given
1-34) has three, one of them is not given in Matthew, Luke (viii.
— from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study by Rush Rhees

the omission of them is no great
[800] upon the loss of your brother; but condolences and consolations are such common and such useless things, that the omission of them is no great crime: and my own diseases occupy my mind, and engage my care.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

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