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Howsome-ever de Negroes dat he kept wid '' im won't bothered none, kaze dem Fed'rals 'spected de Jedge and didn't do no harm' round his place.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Gen'rals 'gainst gen'rals grapple, -- gracious God! How honors Heav'n heroic hardihood!
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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Gen'rals 'gainst gen'rals grapple, -- gracious God! How honors Heav'n heroic hardihood!
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Lee and Jackson are such mighty good gen'rals 'cause they always make the other fellow think they've got twice as many soldiers as they really have. "
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I had always known that medievalist architect Augustus Pugin 1812-52 said to Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace “you had better keep to building green-houses, and I will keep to my churches and cathedrals”.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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I had always known that medievalist architect Augustus Pugin 1812-52 said to Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace “you had better keep to building green-houses, and I will keep to my churches and cathedrals”.
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Courthouses, he argued, are a little like medieval cathedrals: they express the will and the hopes of the people.
Archive 2009-05-01 Hels 2009
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Courthouses, he argued, are a little like medieval cathedrals: they express the will and the hopes of the people.
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In this century, R.M. Hare, in his earlier books (The Language of M.rals, Freedom and Reason) regarded moral judgments as those judgments that override all nonmoral judgments and that the person would universalize.
The Definition of Morality Gert, Bernard 2008
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Gen.rals don't talk politics, and the closest Gen. Chilton gets to the subject is to say that he had spoken to no one from either of the campaigns in the recent presidential election.
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