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  • Google have, with the worM, the lels is our, union with God.

    Sacra Privata: The Private Meditations and Prayers of the Right Reverend ... 1792

  • The content of the Grundrisse only serves to confirm what is plain from the external evidence: the beginning of the chapter on Capital reproduces almost word for word the passages in the Manuscripts on human need, man as a species-being, the individual as a social being, the idea of nature as, in a sense, man's body, the paral - lels between religious and economic alienation, the utopian and almost millennial elements, etc.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID McLELLAN 1968

  • But certain texts of the New Testament, such as Matthew 19 and its paral - lels, condemned riches, though even these texts did nothing more than advocate an extreme form of charity.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • In regard to the author, Freud asserted that irony as saying the opposite of what one means paral - lels the dream, which “delights in representing a pair of opposites by means of one and the same composite image” or “changes an element from the dream - thoughts into its opposite.”

    IRONY NORMAN D. KNOX 1968

  • For the Church Fathers Pythagorean beliefs were acceptable as long as biblical parallels could be found for them; and for notions of cosmic harmony there were, as scholars like Philo discovered, plenty of paral - lels.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

  • Thucydides, ihe son of Milesias, his an - foated by Poiupey, and lels a price upon swerto Archidamus, who asked wlietlier he or Pericles was the best wrestler, 276.

    Plutarch's Lives 1812

  • Thefe pods are bigger or lels, according to the intended magnificence of the fuperftrudure.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • With a good glafs, liit Dtmftable hills, at little lels than eighty miles, iarei I am well afTured, difcernable.

    The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties: Including the Management of ... William 1796

  • Tea was firft imported from Holland by the Earls of Arlington and Oflbry in 1666 j their ladies taught the ufe of it to women of quality, for fuch only were then aljle to afford it, the price being very great, not lels than three pounds fterling per lb.

    Every Woman Her Own House-keeper; Or, The Ladies' Library: Containing the ... 1796

  • Mr. Langton told us he was about to cftablifli a fchool upon his eftate, but it had been fuggefted to him, that it might have a tendency to make the people lels induftrious.

    The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... 1791

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