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  • Environed by them, while the Woodman and the Farmer worked unheeded, those two of the large jaws, and those other two of the plain and the fair faces, trod with stir enough, and carried their divine rights with a high hand.

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  • Environed here in scenes of constant torment, malice and obloquy, worn down in a state where no effort to render service can aver any thing, I feel not that existence is a blessing but when something recalls my mind to my family.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • Environed by ambitious neighbours far superior in power, her institutions have well stood the severe trial of time.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • Environed with a wall co-equal, if not exceedinge, that of

    The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

  • Environed thus, and with a peculiarly Italian morbidezza, or plasticity we find Machiavelli.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Environed today more closely by the philosophic circles of Bacon, Des Cartes and Kant than by the principles of Luther's methods, we feel the force of at greater scope of horizon and call it the "new education," but the unprejudiced mind will freely admit that its data were made possible of conception, of interpretation, of realization because of that spirit of absolute intellectual freedom which the processes of the Reformation contributed to modern civilization.

    Missouri. 1894

  • Environed today more closely by the philosophic circles of Bacon, Des Cartes and Kant than by the principles of Luther's methods, we feel the force of at greater scope of horizon and call it the "new education," but the unprejudiced mind will freely admit that its data were made possible of conception, of interpretation, of realization because of that spirit of absolute intellectual freedom which the processes of the Reformation contributed to modern civilization.

    The Woman's Era, Vol. 1, No. 9 1894

  • Environed today more closely by the philosophic circles of Bacon, Des Cartes and Kant than by the principles of Luther's methods, we feel the force of at greater scope of horizon and call it the "new education," but the unprejudiced mind will freely admit that its data were made possible of conception, of interpretation, of realization because of that spirit of absolute intellectual freedom which the processes of the Reformation contributed to modern civilization.

    The Woman's Era, Vol. 1 1894

  • Environed as we are by risks and perils, which befall us as misfortunes, no man of us is in a position to say, "I know all the laws, and am sure to obey them all; therefore I shall never need aid and sympathy."

    What Social Classes Owe to Each Other William Graham Sumner 1875

  • Environed by such a sea of Presbyterian excitement, what could the

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

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