Fox was a solemn, reverent, absorbed man; a great reader and fluent expounder of the Scriptures, but fanatical and superstitious; a believer in witchcraft, and in his power to detect witches.
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

In time past in Lincolne (as the fame goeth) there haue beene two and fiftie parish churches, and good record appeareth for eight and thirtie: but now if there be foure and twentie it is all.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

In spite of all this, some are inclined to think that the States of Brabant are getting ready a fresh embassy, which will shortly be sent to arrange the terms of a reconciliation with Alençon.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

In time past in Lincoln (as the same goeth) there have been two-and-fifty parish churches, and good record appeareth for eight-and-thirty; but now, if there be four-and-twenty, it is all.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

He sees only the Divine action in events; or in plain words, he does not make enough of nature, and does not sufficiently bring out the fact that natural and supernatural, nature and grace, reason and faith, earth and heaven, are not antagonistic forces, to be reconciled only by the suppression of the one or the other, but really parts of one dialectic whole, which, to the eye that can take in the whole in all its parts, and all the parts in the whole, in which they are integrated, would appear perfectly consistent with each other, living the same life in God, and directed by him to one and the same end.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The Jewish women and girls represent a formidable element to contend with, as they are now coming over in great numbers, and the question has so organized itself that each falls almost at once into her own place, and works with machine-like regularity and efficiency.
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

"LIVRE DES MASQUES" (1896), not particularly important, though the preface contains a good reformulation: as, for example, "Le crime capital pour un écrivain, c'est le conformisme, l'imitativité, la soumission aux règles et aux enseignements.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

i bob cyfeiriad i edrych a ganfyđai ryw argoel fod ei hanwylyd yn dychwelyd; ond i đim pwrpas.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir