Modern medicine, based upon a painstaking Pg xxiv research into the details of physiological function, had begun.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

As a type of characteristically vital action we may take nutrition , in which occurs a phenomenon Pg xxix which Galen calls active motion (δραστικὴ κίνησις) or, more technically, alteration (ἀλλοίωσις).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

having by a strict levy of fines confiscated to the State the entire flocks and herds of many private individuals, a light tax on the cattle was substituted for the law of fines in the consulship of Caius Julius and Publius Papirius. XXXVI.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not essentially a process of detaching the thought from created things of time—still less one of detaching the heart from created beings of eternity—but a process of more and more allowing and presenting [Pg xxxvi] the man to be fastened closely to God by means of the original longing of the soul, the influence of the Holy Ghost, and the discipline of life with its natural tribulations, which by their purifying serve to strengthen the affections that remaining pass through them. "
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Nor could this silence in itself be taken as a proof that ascetic practices had not in her view a preparatory [Pg xxxvii] function such as has by many of the Mystics been assigned to them during a process of self-training in the earlier stages of the soul's ascent to aptitude for mystical vision.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Certainly she passes sometimes beyond the language of earth, seeing a love and a Goodness "more than tongue can tell," but she is never inarticulate in any painful, [Pg xli] struggling way—when words are not to be found that can tell all the truth revealed, she leaves her Lord's "meaning" to be taken directly from Him by the understanding of each desirous soul.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

What are ‘Concrete’ and ‘Abstract’ Propositions? pg096 XV.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The fourth island, Domdom, never participated in this trade, and up to the present there is not a single woman in Domdom who can shape a pot. Plate XLIV Technology of Pot Making (I.)
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

See Urkunde apud Papencordt, p. xliv.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

p. 124, and gives a plan (Plate xiii.).
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

It was made in this manner:—A card was first of all prepared (Plate X. fig.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

TRING QUELLED SCANDAL WITH A PEWTER POT XXIII.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

[160] Numerous gems, splendidly mounted as pendants, are to be found in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris (Pl. XXXI, 6); and in the British {246} Museum are a few fine examples from the Carlisle Collection.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

Approprid , pp. assigned as personal property, XI b 97.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

(1) Eumæus atala , Poey, Plate XXVIII, Fig.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

It is mainly Horace whom Ogilvie has in view as the exemplar of the lyric poet, though “a professed imitator both of Anacreon and Pindar” ( p. xxx ).
— from An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by John Ogilvie

230; girls at puberty painted, x. 35, 38, 39, 40; women at menstruation painted, x. 78 —— and yellow paint on human victim to represent colours of maize, vii. 261, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

A good idea of the importance of this stronghold may be formed from the number of tools and appliances found in it for carrying on the ordinary business of every-day life, such as the tongs and supposed anvil of the smith—the latter a rough lump of iron somewhat smoothed on one side, and weighing fifty or sixty pounds—many crucibles, one unused, but several greatly worn and burnt, the most perfect specimen being about the size of a hen’s egg; a netting-needle of iron; a battle-axe, such as was borne by the ancient gallowglasses; a very small sock of a plough ( plate XXXIII. ,
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin