"Province" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... give issue to his soul into the other world; and an imaginary being seemed to inform him that, "the part of the soul engaged in the body, entrammelled in its organisation, is the soul is ordinarily understood; but that there is another part or province of the soul, which is the demon. This has a certain control over the bodily soul, and among other offices constitutes conscience. In three months," the vision added, "you will know more of this." At the end of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... factories which she had at that date. As a compensation to Spain for the loss of Florida, France ceded to her Louisiana; a Spanish governor arrived there in 1766, but though Spain had posts and settlements in the province, she can scarcely be said to have ever had any effective hold ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... said, 'it's a Province. The fact is, it's the Land of Lost Toys. You haven't such a thing as a fly anywhere ...
— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... was the Marquis Posa, too, who crushed The dread conspiracy in Catalonia; And by his marked activity preserved That powerful province to the ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... consisted we are not yet in a position to say. Whatever it was, it covered a wide area, larger than the area covered by many families of languages in India at the present day. Languages With this common substratum are now spoken, not only in the modern Province of Assam, in Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Anam, but also over the whole of Central India, as far west as the Berars." Grierson, having agreed regarding the existence of this common substratum, does not finally ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
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