" Vetonica herba ," says Pliny, " tantum gloriæ habet ut domus in qua sita sit tuta existimetur a piaculis omnibus " (XXV, 8, 46).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

After that he became a pupil of Xanthus the musician, and after that attended the lectures of Theophrastus, and subsequently came over to the Academy to Crantor.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But Sotion relates, that some people affirmed that he had been a pupil of Xenophanes.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I. Parmenides, the son of Pyres, and a citizen of Velia, was a pupil of Xenophanes.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

However, though he was a pupil of Xenophanes, he was not afterwards a follower of his; but he attached himself to Aminias, and Diochaetes the Pythagorean, as Sotion relates, which last was a poor but honourable and virtuous man.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Demetrius, the Magnesian, says that he was a pupil of Xenocrates also.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

a phenomenon occurring x times will invariably occur when the essential circumstances remain identical.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Grammar, nature and principles of, xi ff. Granted that , 168 .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He might have been a pupil of Xenocrates.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

690 It will be seen I adopt the reading and punctuation of Xylander.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Morality a part of, X. 109.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Roldan took leave of Hojeda, believing that everything that glittered was gold, and Hojeda, having got the bread about which he had arranged, instead of taking the road to Santo Domingo to see the Admiral, and give an account to him of what he had done during his voyage, as he had promised to Roldan, and to report the news from Castille, went with his four ships towards the west, in the direction of the gulf and port of Xaragua.
— from The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career by Amerigo Vespucci

121; leaping over the Midsummer bonfires as a preventive of, x. 166, 173, 194; Midsummer fires a protection against, x. 190; need-fire kindled to prevent, x. 297; cure for, in India, by walking through a narrow passage, xi. 190 Fewkes, J. Walter, on the observation of the Pleiades among the Pueblo Indians, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

M ARCO P OLO XVIII.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

Why, I’ve never even done a page of Xenophon, and I’m not sure that I could say the Greek alphabet to save my life!”
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

T HE M AGNETIC P OLE XVII.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

87 American colonies, a refuge for the disaffected, x, 394 Amours (Ovid’s) translations from, xii, 257 Amphitryon, or the two Sosias, a comedy, viii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 letter and verses on, ib. 5 epistle dedicatory to, ib. 7 prologue to, ib. 12 epilogue to, ib. 106 Amyntas, a pastoral elegy, xi, 139 Anabaptists, account of, x, 145 Anachronism of Virgil defended, xiv, 176 Ancient political satire of Reynard the fox, x, 155 viii Ancient armour, rivetted after put on, xi, 363 British custom, xviii, 120 Ancients, excelled by the English in dramatic writing, xv, 396 ceremonies observed by, on escape from shipwreck, ix, 34, 44 Andronicus, Livius, first author of a play in Roman republic, xiii, 54 account of, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

162 Cold food, festival of the, in China, x. 137 —— weather, charm to bring on, i. 319; ceremonies to procure, i. 329 n. 1 Cole, Lieut.-Colonel H. W. G., on a custom of the Lushais, xi. 185 sq. Colic, a Bahnar cure for, iii. 59; popular remedies for, x. 17; leaping over bonfires as a preventive of, x. 107, 195 sq. , 344; attributed to witchcraft, x. 344 Coligny calendar of Gaul, i. 17 n. 2, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer