And as Magnetism may be intended and remitted, and is found only in the Magnet and in Iron: So this Virtue of refracting the perpendicular Rays is greater in Island-Crystal, less in Crystal of [Pg 374] the Rock, and is not yet found in other Bodies.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton
The significance of the decrease of the area of the nasal mucosa, which seems to be related to relative aridity, is not yet properly understood.
— from Subspeciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii KU. Vol 1 No 23 by Henry W. Setzer
The potato crop has never been as much attended to in this region as in New York, and New England.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher
"Yes, and a nice sum those rascally agents in New York made me pay for having them come with me," Arthur rejoined.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
He joined the royal army in New York, where he continued until 1778, when, accompanied by his only daughter, he went to England.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing
The iniquity of the Amorites (these representing all) is not yet full, is the language of God—in the fourth generation it will be full, and then Abraham's seed should possess the land, and these ites be exterminated.
— from The Negro: What is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. by Ariel
It is a fact of capital importance in the development of human genius that the great revolution in Christendom against Christianity, a revolution that began with the Renaissance and is not yet completed, should have found angels to herald it, no less than that other revolution did which began at Bethlehem; and that among these new angels there should have been one so winsome, pure, and rapturous as Shelley.
— from Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
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