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So they freed their minds for a more specialized form of re - search, freed science itself from its compromising en - tanglement with “natural philosophy.”

CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

I began to see some of the tanglement of nature, and appreciate the solemn mystery of our travel across this vexed and care-warped world.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

High and low looked Count Victor as he slacked his pace, seeking for some way out of this sack, releasing as he did so the small sword from the tanglement of his skirts, feeling the Mechlin deucedly in his way.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

The fronds of the bracken grow to feet where we have inches; weeds that with us would shelter a mouse would there oonceal an elephant, and a creeping plant which in England would delay a man only while he kicked its tendrils aside grows in Jamaica to such a strength and tanglement that it would obstruct the passage of a troop of horse.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

But before plunging into the tanglement of these rather complicated problems, it will make for clearness if we consider quite briefly the philosophic heritage of social teaching to which the Middle

Mediaeval Socialism Bede Jarrett 1907

That I should have to undertake this task is a proof of the complexity of education, of the bewildering tanglement of its root-system, of the depths to which some of its roots descend into the subsoil of human-life.

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893

A quantity of long dark hair hung round her head in a condition of seemingly hopeless tanglement, and the dark eyes, proportionately larger than the rest of the features, wore an expression of mingled apathy and suspicion, alike strange and painful to see in the eyes of a child.

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Desborough gazed doubtingly on the speaker -- "Strange sort of a dress that for shootin 'I guess -- them cloaks most be a great tanglement in the bushes."

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824

Desborough gazed doubtingly on the speaker -- "Strange sort of a dress that for shootin 'I guess -- them cloaks most be a great tanglement in the bushes."

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824

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