Coffee For every cup of water allow a tablespoonful of ground coffee, then add one extra.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

SHOWING THAT AN ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM, IN SOME CASES, ACTS AS A QUICKENER TO INVENTIVE GENIUS T he constitution of Mr. Pickwick, though able to sustain a very considerable amount of exertion and fatigue, was not proof against such a combination of attacks as he had undergone on the memorable night, recorded in the last chapter.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He was also very clever in getting the start of his enemies, and snatching from them their advantages by secretly forestalling them, before any one even feared what was about to happen.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It was also but four months since Yorktown; the affairs of England were going badly; something must be done, something left to chance, and Hood knew himself and his officers.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Breaking shins , in City slang, is borrowing money; a rotten or unsound scheme is spoken of as FISHY ; “ RIGGING the market” means playing tricks with it; and STAG was a common term during the railway mania for a speculator without capital, a seller of “scrip” in “Diddlesex Junction” and other equally safe lines.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

During the rainy season flax, 331 millet, sesamum, rice, and bosmorum 332 are sowed; and in the winter season, wheat, barley, pulse, and other esculent fruits of the earth with which we are not acquainted.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

If any one else kisses her baby the poor thing imagines that it gives him immense pleasure.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The English indeed give the allied loss as only eight ships,—an estimate probably full as much out one way as the French the other.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Biorn is said to have had a horse which was splendid and of exceeding speed, so that when all the rest were powerless to cross the river it alone stemmed the roaring eddy without weariness.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

[64] [69] Can, then, the affirmation or negation of Free Will affect our view of the fittest means for the attainment of either end?
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

"The syrinx is composed of a certain number of reed pipes, which collectively produce the same sounds as a flute; these reeds are placed in regular order and mutually compacted, presenting the same appearance on either side; beginning from the shortest, they ascend in gradation to the longest, and the central one holds a medium proportion between the two extremities.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

THE ORIENTAL TRADITION Dante’s attitude towards Virgil—His scheme in the Commedia—Non-classical elements thereby necessitated—Process of accretion in the later Jewish Church—The Chaldæan eschatology—Visits to Hades of Ishtâr and Gisdubar—The Chaldæan Elysium—Arali, the Chaldæan Hades—Aristocratic conception of Elysium—The effect of the Median conquest—The Avestan eschatology—The soul after death—The Chinvât Bridge—Judgment—The Avestan Elysium—The Tree of Life and the World-Sea—The bird Karshipta—the Vara of Yima—Yima and the Indian Yama—Allegoric tendencies of the Avesta—Its adoption of earlier animism—The question of its influence on Judaism—Darmesteter on Neo-Platonic elements in the Avesta—Older elements in the Avestan theory of the Otherworld; Achæmenian, Indian and Chaldæan—The Amesha Spentas and the Philonic emanations—Their probable connection with the Chaldæan Spirits of Earth—Chaldæan and Persian influences upon Jewish speculation—Oriental conceptions present in the Vision of Adamnán: the seven Heavens, the mystical Bird, the Tree of Life, the World-Sea, the Bridge—Rebirth theory absent from the Avestan religion—Egypt and Neo-Judaism—The Jewish colony in Alexandria; its culture mainly Hellenic; interchange of ideas with the Egyptians—Egyptian cults in the Hellenic world—Egyptian eschatology; Judgment, the ‘Eater of the Dead,’ Elysium—Purgatorial and kindred theories of the Rabbis and early Christians—Special treatment of half [x] good, half wicked souls—Greek and Oriental influences on the Otherworld conceptions of the Christian Church—Rebirth rejected by the Jews, and by the ancient Egyptians 67-94 3.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

It is a law of Occult dynamics that [pg 706] “a given amount of energy expended on the spiritual or astral plane is productive of far greater results than the same amount expended on the physical objective plane of existence.”
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

It will be necessary, moreover, that, we should look with some degree of accuracy into the state of our future income, and our expenditure.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

This is a unique repository of Newspaper Cuttings, Ballads, Songs, Biographical Anecdotes, Autograph Letters, Oral Traditions, Queer Jokes, Cards of Invitation, besides portraits of distinguished personages, and a great assemblage of engraved views of noted places in that renowned part of Scotland.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

And this, too, of a maxim true only, if at all, of England or a part of England, or some other country;—namely, that the desire of bettering their condition will induce men to labour even more abundantly and profitably than servile compulsion,—to which maxim the past history and present state of all Asia and Africa give the lie.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My first inquiries were directed to the wages of this staff; because, if any establishment claiming to be self-supporting, live upon the spoliation of anybody or anything, or eke out a feeble existence by poor mouths and beggarly resources (as too many so-called Mechanics’ Institutions do), I make bold to express my Uncommercial opinion that it has no business to live, and had better die.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

"A man so rich as her father will of course wish her to marry a man of wealth, and one equal in position to her mother's relations.
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.