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The modern knowledge on such dark mysteries you may find in Hart's "The Psychology of Insanity." CHAPTER XIV THE PROBLEM OF IMMORTALITY (Discusses the survival of personality from the moral point of view: that is, have we any claim upon life, entitling us to live forever?)
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair
Of one of the big six-foot specimens this author says: "Its head was so beautifully preserved, and cleaned under long erosion, it was difficult to believe it was not a recent specimen."
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price
The death of the king at this early age has given to many historians the idea that he was a sad dog, and that he sat up late of nights and cut up like everything, but this may not be true.
— from Comic History of England by Bill Nye
"Wait, Frank, don't you begin to load till one of us is ready; there'll be another cock up, like enough.
— from Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Henry William Herbert
One room was inhabited by an old man named Strong, who was considered a wonder because he ate adders cut up like eels and stewed with a bit of bacon.
— from Old Times at Otterbourne by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
Quintilian, who had before him many more tragedies than those which we now possess, remarks how much more useful was the study of Euripidês, than that of Æschylus or Sophoklês, to a young man preparing himself for forensic oratory:— “Illud quidem nemo non fateatur, iis qui se ad agendum comparaverint, utiliorem longe Euripidem fore.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote
"Interpellata est a civibus, ut leges eis regis Edwardi observari liceret, quia optimæ erant, non patris sui
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
This extract of a summary report will correct the misapprehension: "The New South Wales Ambulance Corps, under Lieutenant Edwards, drawn by Australian horses, kept pace with the column and picked up many wounded.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
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