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  • L. Onsager, I. Prigogine, N. Georgescu-Roegen, A. Lotka, and H.T. Odum, among others, contributed to this research and several statements of Thermodynamics laws were tentatively reformulated or introduced a-new.

    Thermodynamics 2009

  • I will give you an instance, nevertheless, which will a-new demonstrate, that none but very generous and noble-minded people ought to be implicitly obeyed.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And in our hearts it shines a-new, While at His throne we pray, God her-ald an-gels sang for joy, To tell a King was born. bless us all for Je-sus 'sake, This hap-py Christ-mas day.

    The Story-teller Maud Lindsay

  • The manner of her inauguration is much like that of the choice of a doge in Venice: it is performed by balloting; and when she is so chosen, she reigns indisputably for that ensuing year; but must be elected a-new to prolong her empire a moment beyond it.

    The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1 George R. [Commentator] Guffey

  • Neither is anything reckoned more cruel or oppressive in the French Government than their common practice of calling in all their money after they have sunk it very low, and then coining it a-new at a much higher value, which however is not the thousandth part so wicked as this abominable project of Mr. Wood.

    Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

  • He passed a-new from Goa to Cochin, and from Cochin to Goa; from thence following the coast as far as Cape Comorine, he set sail towards Malacca.

    The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

  • He is pragmatical, restless, unfixed, full of experiments, beginning every thing a-new, wiser than his betters, judging for himself, dictating to others.

    The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804

  • It is not to mend the old house, but to pull down all, and build a-new on Christ, the rock and sure foundation.

    A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795

  • Sextilius Agefilaus Ædesius says, that he was born a-new, to life eternal, by means of the

    A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755

  • We may begin with considering a-new the nature and force of sympathy.

    A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

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