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the one radical and

These relatively fundamental powers must again be compared with each other, to discover, if possible, the one radical and absolutely fundamental power of which they are but the manifestations.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

term of reproach applied

Snot , a term of reproach applied to persons by the vulgar when vexed or annoyed, meaning really a person of the vilest description and meanest capacity.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

This one rushed at

This one rushed at Cadwaladr and butting him in the stomach sent him toppling over a crag as he had sent his poor nannygoat.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The original relates a

The original relates a pleasant tale of an ignorant, but harmless, practitioner.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

then our real attack

A comment on the T`ang Emperor T`ai Tsung goes to the root of the matter: 'A CH`I maneuver may be CHENG, if we make the enemy look upon it as CHENG; then our real attack will be CH`I, and vice versa.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

the other rats and

It was not for his dignity to notice it; his contemptuous eyes passed over her, and over all the other rats; and he leaned back in his seat again, and gave the word “Go on!”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

the official reports as

There was a big tenement in the Sixth Ward, now happily appropriated by the beneficent spirit of business that blots out so many foul spots in New York—it figured not long ago in the official reports as “an out-and-out hog-pen”—that had a record of one hundred and two arrests in four years among its four hundred and seventy-eight tenants, fifty-seven of them for drunken and disorderly conduct.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Tongues of red and

Tongues of red and yellow flames flickered through the vapour.
— from Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

thought of Ron and

The desire to know him grew daily in intensity, while, unconsciously to herself, the personal element slowly predominated the thought of Ron and Ron’s future.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

tribe of rats and

This brings us to the world-wide tribe of rats and mice formed by a group of eight families, of which the typical one (Muridæ) alone contains a third of all Rodentia, and the other seven creatures differing greatly from these familiar models.
— from Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 by Ernest Ingersoll

their own ranks as

[-32-] So they attacked and began the conflict, both sides uttering many exhortations in their own ranks as to both artifice and zeal, and hearing many from the men on shore that shouted to them.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

the others remain astrologers

The occupations of the latter are umbrella-making and spirit-exorcising, while the others remain astrologers, pure and simple.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

traditions of Renaissance art

The school of Borromini, Oppenord and Meissonier carried everything before it, in spite of great opposition on the part of those who clung stubbornly to the traditions of Renaissance art.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

to our room and

A few moments later Georgia came up to our room, and found me dressing myself with greatest care.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

that ordinary remittent and

Putting the most reasonable construction on this emphatic and straightforward language, we may presume that ordinary, remittent, and yellow fever had been commonly imported into the island, for it is not to be supposed but that both forms of disease must have existed among those sick men who had " often been landed ," under the sanction of the Portuguese physician.
— from Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease by John Grove

that our rulers are

To this I answer, if parliament is to be our supreme legislature, we shall be under a complete oligarchy or aristocracy, not the British constitution, which this writer himself defines a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy.—For king, lords and commons will constitute one great oligarchy, as they will stand related to America, as much as the decemvirs did in Rome; with this difference for the worse, that our rulers are to be three thousand miles off.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

the order recognised as

Of course payment was resisted, but Hans David was told to pursue his claim, if he pleased, before the emperor and the pope, whom the order recognised as their superiors.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

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