Luther says, "no man can rightly know God, unless he immediately receives it from his holy spirit, except he finds it by experience in himself; and in this experience the holy spirit teacheth as in his proper school, out of which school nothing is taught but mere talk."
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

She was observant too and keenly fond of Nature; plants, insects, birds, everything interested her; and if she saw anything she wanted to look at she could do it far better, she said, on foot than on horseback.
— from A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

The Minister, Baron Edelsheim, is half an illuminato, half a philosopher, half a politician, and half a revolutionist.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

And I admit that, if this Government of ours were not a party to this controversy,—if it looked on it from the outside, as England and France have done,—our Government would have had the full right to treat these contending parties, in its Courts and before its laws, as belligerents, engaged in hostilities, as it would have had an equal right to take the opposite course.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

Between both extremes, it holds an intermediate position, neither aspiring, with Pantheism, to solve the problems of the Absolute, nor neglecting them, with Positivism, as altogether remote from the field of philosophical inquiry; but maintaining that such problems must necessarily arise, and must necessarily be taken into account in every adequate survey of human nature and human thought, and that philosophy, if it cannot solve them, is bound to show why they are insoluble.
— from The Philosophy of the Conditioned by Henry Longueville Mansel

It was a letter written by Catherine Shaw, as was positively affirmed by experts in handwriting, and it was addressed to her father, upbraiding him for his barbarity.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

But I found too late that I was wrong, That love but existed in hopes and in song.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

The Pope sent a strong remonstrance in his favour, but Edward II. had anticipated it by the Bishop's release.
— from King Robert the Bruce by Alexander Falconer Murison

The tree, while never large, is of medium size, comes in bearing early, is hardy, and is as free as most of its orchard associates from blight.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

But to be candid, and looking at both sides, I would as soon deal with a Chinese merchant in the East as with one who is European, and I believe the respectable class of Chinese to be equal in honesty and integrity to the white man.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde