367 The alimentary canal, as not being edible, is not considered a splanchnon or viscus.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

In a world that in extent and complexity so far outruns human energies, physical knowledge ought to be largely virtual; that is, nature ought to be represented by a suitable attitude toward it, by the attitude which reason would dictate were knowledge complete, and not by explicit ideas.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

After all, magical ceremonies are nothing but experiments which have failed and which continue to be repeated merely because, for reasons which have already been indicated, the operator is unaware of their failure.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

No nation long protects a secret which directly concerns another nation, but even so, no nation has all the secrets of all the other nations.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

[Pg 172] Hard experience at length taught them who we were, and they now desired to become our friends, and the vassals of the great emperor Don Carlos; for, they were convinced, that in alliance with us, they would be able to live in security and peace with their wives and children, and not be each moment exposed to the incursions of the treacherous Mexicans."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

“And if it should rain, which I think exceedingly likely, for I never saw it more threatening for a wet evening in my life, you must manage as well as you can, and not be expecting the carriage to be sent for you.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

For now is the end come, and not before, even the end of the reign of death itself; for death, and hell, and sinners, and devils, must now [fall] together into the lake, that burns with fire and brimstone (Rev 20:14,15).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

She was very liberal in furnishing fortunes to poor young women, that they might marry according to their condition, and not be exposed to the danger of losing their virtue.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

In chemistry and nosology, by extending the degree to a certain point, the constituent proportion may be destroyed, and a new kind produced.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He read many of these, but not with equal attention—" Sicut canis ad Nilum, bibens et fugiens ;" like a dog at the Nile, drinking and running.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

He had become a curse to the community, and nothing but excommunication seemed wise or possible.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

She was wearing what I recognized as her best clothes, and not being entirely at her ease she talked loudly and rapidly.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

But zeal for God in their own country alone not being enough for their ardor, those men of God were early moved by the impulse of going abroad to spread the faith.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

"Bad?—it was carelessness and neglect beyond endurance," she said.
— from Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the Crusades by Emily Sarah Holt