The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth gladness, and joy, and long life: and all such as prescribe physic, to begin in nomine Dei , as [2821] Mesue did, to imitate Laelius a Fonte Eugubinus, that in all his consultations, still concludes with a prayer for the good success of his business; and to remember that of Creto one of their predecessors, fuge avaritiam, et sine oratione et invocations Dei nihil facias avoid covetousness, and do nothing without invocation upon God. MEMB.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ 212 ] [ Contents ] XLIII THE PROPITIOUS MAGPIE People say that when the magpie builds its nest directly south of a home that the master of the house will be promoted in office.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

And they say—mark, now, and see whether their words are true—they say that the soul of man is immortal, and at one time has an end, which is termed dying, and at another time is born again, but is never destroyed.
— from Meno by Plato

He guided himself by it, no doubt.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In that case, the person, who assents, not only conceives the ideas according to the proposition, but is necessarily determined to conceive them in that particular manner, either immediately or by the interposition of other ideas.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And if I adored her before, I now doubly adore her.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Let the Child's Capacity be forthwith examined and he sent to some Mechanick Way of Life, without respect to his Birth, if Nature designed him for nothing higher: let him go before he has innocently suffered, and is debased into a Dereliction of Mind for being what it is no Guilt to be, a plain Man.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But I never did; and so, as time went on, he passed out of my mind.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The frute is a berry resembling the Blackberry in every respect and is eaten when ripe and much esteemed by the nativs but is not dryed for winters Consumption.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One universal law seems to be, that Sovereigns can command their subjects to return home in case of war; another, that no person can expatriate himself; and Great Britain is no doubt willing to acknowledge another, by which she might impress sailors from all the world.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

“T'ank you, sor, but I never dhrink—on djooty,” Mr. Reardon retorted with chill politeness, “nor,” he added, “wit' me immejiate superiors.”
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

But though indubitably basi-occipital, it is so anomalous in some respects that the Professor regarded the under as the upper surface; since then the investing phosphate of lime has been removed, and the bone is now described in what appears to be its natural position.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley

There is a letter from him to Mr. Morley in 1897, when he thought that freedom for the Indian Press was threatened by "blind reaction" after the Poona murder: "The state of things in Poona has grown out of the Committee, under the man who was stabbed but is not dead, employing British privates (instead of employing native troops, as did General Gatacre at Bombay) to search the houses for plague patients."
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Hope is at the bottom of every Essay of Emerson's as it was at the bottom of Pandora's box:— "I never doubt the riches of nature, the gifts of the future, the immense wealth of the mind.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Meanwhile Capt. H. A. Hansen and the crew from Cleveland were operating several boats in North Dayton.
— from The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall

this child is he of whom God foretold, that if we kill him we shall be in no danger; he himself affords an attestation to the prediction of the same thing, by his trampling upon thy government, and treading upon thy diadem.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Of course, in the taking of the picture, Fleurette had been in no danger whatever; in fact, had not been in the falling house at all, until time for Azalea to find her in the ruins.
— from Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells

I knowd dis day would come when dey'd take you 'way from me, but I nebber did think 'twould be 'fo' dawn wif all de long day 'head er me to be studyin' 'bout you.
— from At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed