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things urged that they ought not

They also stood up and encouraged one another, and among other things urged that they ought not to lose heart because the city had revolted from them, as the party seceding was smaller and in every way poorer in resources than themselves.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

themselves unreservedly to their own natural

Athos, with his superior understanding, wisely deemed that the supper table would be the most complete and satisfactory point of reunion, and at the moment when his friends, in deference to his deportment and sobriety, dared scarcely speak of some of their former good dinners, he was the first to propose that they should all assemble around some well spread table and abandon themselves unreservedly to their own natural character and manners--a freedom which had formerly contributed so much to that good understanding between them which gave them the name of the inseparables.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

to understand the transformation of Nimrod

The willingness of some huntsmen even now, when this serious occupation of an early period has become a sport, to sacrifice not only animal life to their pleasure, but also the interests of labour and agriculture, renders it very easy for us to understand the transformation of Nimrod into a demon.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

the Union to the old number

Thus, if the increase of the population of the lesser country be to that of the greater in an exact inverse ratio of the proportion between the new and the old numbers of all the representatives, the number of the representatives of Virginia will remain stationary; and if the increase of the Virginian population be to that of the whole Union in a feeblerratio than the new number of the representatives of the Union to the old number, the number of the representatives of Virginia must decrease.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

traced up to the older name

Irminon as Hauis, but its proper form is to be traced up to the older name Hathewiza in the Liber Vitæ , from hath , war, and wisa , leader.
— from Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson

than uttering the tune of Nancy

He stood up and confronted himself in the barber's mirror; regarding the fair, almost florid man, rather under six feet in height, with sanguine blue eyes and full, but clearly cut, lips therein reflected, he came to the comforting conclusion that he did not look his forty-two years and nine months; indeed, while his muffled whistle was shaping rather than uttering the tune of Nancy Lee , he nearly asked the barber to guess his age.
— from Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

to utilize the time of necessary

He would probably have done well to utilize the time of necessary waiting in laying siege to Badajoz.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

taken upon the tribes of northern

Punishment was also taken upon the tribes of northern Arabia who had joined the rebels.
— from A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

there until the time of Napoleon

It remained there until the time of Napoleon’s Italian Campaign.
— from Veronese by François Crastre

that under the treaty of November

Apart from what might be done in the way of extending the Duala-Njong line to the said navigable tributaries of the Congo, as originally projected, Herr Zimmermann says that, under the treaty of November 4, 1911, Germany has the right to continue her Cameroons railways across French territory (France having reciprocal rights as regards German territory); and he points out how she could exercise this power, to the detriment of Belgium, should that country not accept her proposals in regard to the Congo basin and Central Africa.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

the upper ten thousand of New

One of the phrases which Bartlett accredits to him is, “the upper ten,”—originally and in full, “the upper ten thousand of New York city.”
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

TRADE UNDER THE TREATY OF NANKING

CREATION OF THE FOREIGN CUSTOMS 149 V. MR ALCOCK'S DEPARTURE FROM SHANGHAI 156 X. CONSUL ALCOCK'S VIEWS ON GENERAL POLICY 161 XI. TRADE UNDER THE TREATY OF NANKING 167 I. TEA 178 II.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

to us than to other nations

As a right it was a theme “fitter for scholars to fret their wits upon than for Christians to fight and spill blood about”; as an honour, by making others strike sails to our ships as they passed, it was “a glory fitter for women and children to wonder at than for statesmen to contend about”; as a matter of profit, to fence and enclose the sea, it was of moment, but not more to us than to other nations: by too insolent contentions about it we might provoke God and dishonour ourselves, and rather incense our friends than quell our enemies.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

them under the title of New

Disappointed as he was, Collinson collected Franklin's letters and published them under the title of New Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America .
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

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