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by an inner life extraordinarily resistant
I wish to show that dogmas have neither this pretended immobility nor this delicate fragility; that they live by an inner life extraordinarily resistant and fecund, and that the criticism of dogmas, so far from injuring the Christian religion, frees it from the chains of the past and permits it to manifest its marvellous gift of rejuvenescence and adaptation to circumstances.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

Bury and in Lavisse et Rambaud
Good sections are devoted to the Ottoman Turks in the Cambridge Modern History (I., chap, iii., by J. B. Bury); and in Lavisse et Rambaud, Histoire Generale (III., chap, xvi., and IV., chap, xix.), by A. Rambaud.
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

b Avctoris insigniter locvpletata et recentissimorvm
Editio tertia ex mscpto b. Avctoris insigniter locvpletata et recentissimorvm scriptorvm recensione avcta stvdio et opera Pavlli Schaffshavsen.
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin

Banbury and its leaders Earl Rivers
The first force sent against it was cut to pieces at Edgecote near Banbury, and its leaders, Earl Rivers and one of the queen's brothers, taken and beheaded.
— from History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green


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