"ascertainment" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "You have a great Worke to doe, to restore Religion and Law, upon which depends the Kings re-enthronement, and re-investure with his just rights, the Parliaments ascertainment of their just power and equall Priviledges, and the peoples restorement to their known Liberties and Properties […]",
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          "text": "[…] does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest?",
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          "text": "[…] what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.",
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