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While I do but justice to Mr. Irving by this statement, I feel the prejudice it does to myself in the unavailing regret I am exciting in the bosom of the reader.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

But I am exciting myself too much, though there is reason enough for it, as you will see further on.

From Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish by Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de

I have for some time had a project of this kind, and, with a view to it, I am exciting several of my friends to contribute their share. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan