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Conciliation is only an attempt to revert to the old system of government--viz: the will of the Governor.— The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
It will there be found that three of the currents--viz, the A B, the A C and the A D currents--are electrolytic_: that is, dissolving by electric action.— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
Since the publication of my account of Marocco, I have seen Arabic words spelled various ways by the same author (I have committed the same error myself); but in the following work I have adopted a plan to correct this prevailing error in Oriental orthography, which, I think, ought to be followed by every Oriental scholar, as the only correct way of transcribing them in English; viz.— An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
6. Plutarch, in Vit 258] This, which is analogous to his address in pleading, is nowhere more observable than in his rendering the recurrence of the same word, to which he is forced by the barrenness or vagueness of the language, an elegance 259] It is remarkable that some authors attempted to account for the invention of the Asiatic style, on the same principle we have here adduced to account for Cicero's adoption of it in Latin; viz.— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
8. Captain Thomas selects this as "the most modern, and at the same time the last, in all probability, that will be constructed in this manner"--viz., "roofed by the horizontal or cyclopean arch, i.e._, by a system of overlapping stones."— Fians, Fairies and Picts

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