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  • If you want to make a focused argument about discipline, you weaken it by obnubilating about “one parliamentary party”.

    Matthew Yglesias » Trapped in the Senate 2009

  • Platonists was Henry More, one of whose hooks Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with the 'foul steam of earthly life.'

    Spectator, June 13, 1711 1711

  • She writes in such an obnubilating manner, sometimes it is not exactly clear as to what she means.

    Times Record News Stories 2010

  • She writes in such an obnubilating manner, sometimes it is not exactly clear as to what she means.

    Times Record News Stories 2010

  • The last of our own Platonists was Henry More, one of whose books Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with 'the foul steam of earthly life.'] [Footnote 2: which] [Footnote 3: Paraphrased from the 'Academe Galante' (Ed. 1708, p. 160).] [Footnote 4: couple] *****

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

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