681 "There exists then necessarily a permanent directing Power.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

They came from Rome with a papal decree—a ban, or bull, against the widow who had dared to offend the pious bishop.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance, which, after all, a man could always put down when he liked.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

A people tyrannized over is forced to be hypocritical; a people denied the truth must resort to lies; and he who makes himself a tyrant breeds slaves.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

As I gauge the several forces now operating in Ireland, I am convinced that if an anti-clerical movement similar to that which other Roman Catholic countries have witnessed, were to succeed in discrediting the priesthood and lowering them in public estimation, it would be followed by a moral, social, and political degradation which would blight, or at least postpone, our hopes of a national regeneration.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

Look at Paul, driven out of one city, dragged lifeless out of another, clinging to a spar on a wild sea, stripped by robbers, arraigned before magistrate after magistrate—what keeps his spirit serene, his purpose unshaken through a life such as this?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

We sit and watch this shore as we glide by with a placid delight.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

The rush and thunder of cow ponies as they hammered over the trail and plunged down through the rocks and trees had hardly lost its echoes in the cliffs when, with a flash of color and a dainty pattering of hoofs, Chapuli came flying over the top of Lookout Point and dashed up the river after them.
— from Hidden Water by Dane Coolidge

And to Blair I wrote: "Their design is evidently to cross the Big Black and pass down the peninsula between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3. by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

A guardian of an ancient parish and borough, in an agricultural district, observed the other day, “This new removal act is a serious matter to us,—as the cottars in the out-parishes die off, the cottages are pulled down, and this impoverished borough will have to support the children, because they reside here.”
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

In the first (that of a physical defect) it is hardly probable that an organic defect would manifest itself in the form of stuttering or stammering, but rather in some other form of defective utterance.
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

After making your plan views, though, the safest way is to make a perspective drawing to the same scale for when you are looking at a square object as it really is it always appears larger than the plan views would indicate.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

Physical Theology, then, is pretty much what it was [pg 451] two thousand years ago, and has not received much help from modern science: but now, on the contrary, I think it has received from it a positive disadvantage,—I mean, it has been taken out of its place, has been put too prominently forward, and thereby has almost been used as an instrument against Christianity,—as I will attempt in a few words to explain.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

Temples :— Of Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri), 84 , 91 , 94 ( 44 ); of Concord, 94 ; of Faustina, 93 ; of Fortuna Virilis, 89 , 90 , 93 ; of Hercules or Vesta, 90 ; of Julius, 94 ; of Jupiter Capitolinus, 68 , 89 , 91 ; of Jupiter Stator, so called (see Temple of Castor and Pollux); of Jupiter Tonans, 91 ; of Mars Ultor, 91 ; of Minerva Medica, 127 ; of Peace, 98 ; of Trajan, 97 ; of Venus and Rome, 94 ( 53 ); of Vesta, in Forum, 94 ; of Vesta, so called, or Hercules, 90 .
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin