[836] Mathews even affirms that "the belief in the reincarnation or transmigration of souls is strongly enrooted in all the Australian tribes."
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Greek text indefinite distance, and if, therefore, there is need of some other mechanism to explain why the blood is conveyed in all directions, then the principle of the refilling of a vacuum may be looked on as a necessary addition; 174 there will not, however, be a plethora in any of the parts coming after the liver, 175 or, if there be, it will be in the region of the heart and lungs; for the heart alone of the parts which come after the liver draws the nutriment into its right ventricle, thereafter sending it through the arterioid vein 176 to the lungs (for Erasistratus himself will have it that, owing to the membranous excrescences, 177 no other parts save the lungs receive nourishment from the heart).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But in the rest of the work the power of language seems to fail him, and the dramatic form is wholly given up.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The motion of the same is said to be undivided, whereas the inner motion is split into seven unequal orbits—the intervals between them being in the ratio of two and three, three of either:—the Sun, moving in the opposite direction to Mercury and Venus, but with equal swiftness; the remaining four, Moon, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, with unequal swiftness to the former three and to one another.
— from Timaeus by Plato

But if the Right of the Soveraign also be excluded, he cannot performe the office they have put him into; which is, to defend them both from forraign enemies, and from the injuries of one another; and consequently there is no longer a Common-wealth.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A people believing in the resurrection of the flesh in heaven will not be averse to a reawakening of the mind on earth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It was built (although about this matter there is some dispute) by Seleucus Nicanor, the first king of the country after Alexander the Great, in memory of his father Antiochus, and became immediately the residence of the Syrian monarchy.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Of the life of this author, biographers have transmitted no particulars; but we may place his birth in the reign of Tiberius, before all the writers who flourished in the Augustan age were extinct.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The comfort of this, the simplification it brought into the relations of the party, was immense.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

During the morning a German shell blew in the roof of the cave, and buried the inmates.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Edward Parrott

Liberals, who are in such haste to drop the name of Christ, should pause long enough to ask themselves the question whether, since it roots religion in a life of such perfect goodness that it became to men the manifestation of God, this sacred name may not in its turn hold the secret of our progress; whether, from the treasured forces of the past that it gathers into itself, when the spring time now setting in shall have fully come, it may not blossom into the religion of the future?
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton

in order to strengthen the Apostles: οὗτος ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα· αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε These voices at the beginning and the close of Christ's ministry have not been sufficiently attended to by those who have raised doubts against the Messianic interpretation; for a doubt in this must necessarily shake also the belief in the reality of those voices.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

The implication that a young lady has no great interest in life but in "the return of the gentlemen," and that, while awaiting them, her pursuits must of necessity be petty and trivial, both amused and provoked Evadne, and she answered with a dry enigmatical, "Yes-s-s." A few steps further on, they overtook that soft-voiced person of "singular views," Mrs. Malcomson, from whom Lord Groome would have fled had he seen her in time, for they detested each other cordially, and she never spared him.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Sir John (Birkenhead) is the representative of the Mercurius Aulicus , the Court Gazette; Needham, of a Parliamentary Diurnal .
— from Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bareheaded in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Below this is inscribed: “REMEMBER THE ALAMO” On the south front beneath the heading: “THE DAY AFTER THE BATTLE” is the report of Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of War: “ The sun was sinking in the horizon as the battle commenced, but, at the close of the conflict, the sun of liberty and independence rose in Texas, never, it is to be hoped, to be obscured by the clouds of despotism.
— from The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign by Louis Wiltz Kemp

"Sons of the teachings of the Albigenses and of the Manichæan-Marcion tradition" [215] they kept alive belief in the rebirths of the soul, "Izarn the Monk," in his book Historie d' un Hérétique , [216] apostrophised an Albigensian bishop in the following terms: "Tell me what school it was in which you learnt that the spirit of man, after losing his body, passes into an ox, an ass, a sheep, or a fowl, and transmigrates from one animal to another, until a new human body is born for it?"
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

She frequently took me to that pious, good man, the Cardinal de Tournon, who gave me good advice, and strengthened me in a perseverance in my religion, furnishing me with books and chaplets of beads in the room of those my brother Anjou took from me and burnt.
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

The real unbroken connection between the two middle layers and the primary germ-layers is found right at the back, in the region of the primitive mouth (Figure 1.87 u).
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel