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our noblest ships in the European

Mr. Richard Brown, of Marblehead, our chief mate in the Alert, commanded many of our noblest ships in the European trade, a general favorite.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

our next step is to examine

II Having thus drawn out the distinction between voluntary and involuntary action our next step is to examine into the nature of Moral Choice, because this seems most intimately connected with Virtue and to be a more decisive test of moral character than a man’s acts are.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

of no sentement I this endyte

For-why to every lovere I me excuse, That of no sentement I this endyte, But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

of no service in the expedition

They confessed, with the frank cordiality peculiar to these brave mountaineers, that their experience would be of no service in the expedition I was undertaking, as they had never attempted any one like it.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

of new Settlements in the Eastern

Borneo itself is not mentioned by name in the document, and the following clauses are the only ones regulating the future establishment of new Settlements in the Eastern Seas by either Power:—"Article 6.
— from British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir

of new studies in these enlightened

In the end, however, she frankly admitted [Pg 133] that the constantly increasing number of new studies in these enlightened days bewildered her greatly, and she could not tell which profession was sure to lead one to success.
— from When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

obtain no share in the expansion

Africa, deficient in these endowments of nature, and wanting both separating gulfs, and inland seas, could obtain no share in the expansion of that fruitful tree, which, having driven its roots deeply in the heart of Asia, spread its branches and blossoms over the western and southern tracts of the same continent, and expanded its crown over Europe.
— from The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various

or nearly so into their elementary

B. Manure consists of all kinds of substances, whether of vegetable or animal origin, which have undergone the putrid fermentation, and are consequently decomposed, or nearly so, into their elementary principles.
— from Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

Our next step is to enter

Our next step is to enter upon the study of certain little organs, which were still almost ignored by the ana
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori

of natural scenery in the eastern

We were in the midst of one of the finest pieces of natural scenery in the eastern United States.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

of Natural Selection in the examples

The proof he himself gives of this operation of Natural Selection in the examples he cites of its ineffectiveness.
— from A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

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