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But, as I am of a disposition that makes me unwilling to be esteemed different from what I really am, I thought it necessary to endeavor by all means to render myself worthy of the reputation accorded to me; and it is now exactly eight years since this desire constrained me to remove from all those places where interruption from any of my acquaintances was possible, and betake myself to this country, in which the long duration of the war has led to the establishment of such discipline, that the armies maintained seem to be of use only in enabling the inhabitants to enjoy more securely the blessings of peace and where, in the midst of a great crowd actively engaged in business, and more careful of their own affairs than curious about those of others, I have been enabled to live without being deprived of any of the conveniences to be had in the most populous cities, and yet as solitary and as retired as in the midst of the most remote deserts.

Now it does make sense to say "There are seven 7's in the first 100 places", and although "There are seven 7's in the development" does not mean the same as the italicised sentence, one might maintain that it nevertheless makes sense since it follows from something which does make sense.

The different verifications of the boat race being won have different places in the grammar of "boat race being won".

In other places, Chomsky’s notion of a “perfect” symbolic system involves intuitions about certain kinds of economy in the mapping between meaning and sound (for example, no meaningless grammatical elements left in Logical Form, short derivations preferred to long ones, and movement rules operating after phonological Spell-Out rather than before).

I knew the judgment which others had formed of me; and I did not find that I was considered inferior to my fellows, although there were among them some who were already marked out to fill the places of our instructors.

But here it may be proper to remark, that though our conclusions from experience carry us beyond our memory and senses, and assure us of matters of fact which happened in the most distant places and most remote ages, yet some fact must always be present to the senses or memory, from which we may first proceed in drawing these conclusions.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular.

For instance: There is no kind of report which rises so easily, and spreads so quickly, especially in country places and provincial towns, as those concerning marriages; insomuch that two young persons of equal condition never see each other twice, but the whole neighbourhood immediately join them together.

She sees a full light, which illuminates certain places; but that light borders upon the most profound darkness.

Some animals, for example, always run away from light and hide themselves in dark places.