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  • I am not afraid that one of the most generous of women will he affected with the passage in wliich Signor Jeronymo expresses his pity for her, because of the afft ction, he says, I must ever retain for his noble sister.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • No wonder they are engaged insensibly by a vanity, wliich carries with it, to each, so generous an appearance; for, all the while, Harriet thinks she is only admiring Clementina; Clementina, that she is applauding Harriet.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Passion is transitory; but discretion, wliich never boils over, gives durable happine!

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • It was a decrepit crescent of tenements, factories and vacant lots around Memorial Cemetery, wliich had been a slave graveyard dating back to the early 1800s.

    THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003

  • His righteousness is our breast-plate, through wliich the devifs darts cannot penetrate, through which the curse of the law cannot enter, and against which death's attacks can make no impression.

    Gleanings of the Vintage, Or Letters to the Spiritual Edification of the ... 1813

  • It is to be observed that nature seems to have set her stamp upon several herbs wliich have llie virtue to stop lilecdings.

    The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ... John Hill, Charles Brightly, T. Kinnersley 1812

  • It cannot be laid down as a general law, that the attractions of bodies are connected with the weights of the proportions in which they combine; yet in some cases the proportions, wliich unite in the greatest quantity, or the bodies represented by the highest numbers, are separated by proportions combining in smaller quantity, or by bodies represented by lower numbers.

    Elements of Chemical Philosophy: Part 1, Vol.1 Humphry Davy, Sir Humphry Davy 1812

  • The most striking defect in the present figure of history, is not meagre n ess, but inflation, wliich distorts her features, and confounds her proportions.

    Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses 1812

  • This, I believe, will give you pleasure, and I would gladly do any thing from wliich you could receive it.

    The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. 1812

  • But it is contrary to all the ideas we have framed of the divine wisdom, and beneficence, to believe that these probationary sufferings are to be the final reward of virtue; or that this mixture of pleasure and pain, in which pleasure predominates, is to be the final infliction of divine justice on that vice wliich disarranges the order and harmony of the moral world.

    The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ... 1812

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