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[471] So solid a city, in such an important position, was sure to attract such settlers, whether from the Latins dwelling about it, or from the Etruscans on the north, or the Greek cities along the coast southwards and in Sicily.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Whether it was enough to prove Mrs. Marland's case or not--whether, that is, it is inconceivable that a young man should go to any place fourteen evenings running, and upset a friend of his youth out of a canoe, except there be a lady involved, is perhaps doubtful; but it was more than enough to show Mr. Sigismund Taylor that the confession he had listened to was based upon fact, and that Charlie Merceron was the other party to those stolen interviews, into whose exact degree of heinousness he was now inquiring.— Comedies of Courtship
[1 1] This letter may be found in Missionary Herald for 1848, p. 98 At the suggestion of Lord Cowley, the Porte promised to send letters to five different pashalics where there were Protestants, requiring them to act in accordance with the letter; in which was granted the privilege of toleration to all Protestant subjects alike, whether from the Armenian, Greek, Syrian, or Roman Catholic Churches, or from the Jews This letter was of great importance under the existing circumstances; but the privileges it conferred might all be taken away on a change of ministry.— History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
So exasperating was he that sometimes I even doubted whether his behaviour really was assumption--whether, after all, I had not been deceived in the man; whether it was not rather his former good behaviour that was assumed, while his present delinquencies were the result of an outbreak of irrepressible evil in him.— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
On the other hand, the Romance words--as they are called, whether from the French or directly from the Latin--are likely to be longer; they belong generally to the more complicated relationships of society and government; they are more intellectual in the sense that they represent the operations of the brain rather than the impulses of the heart.— Public Speaking

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