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city a place called Hlidskjalf and

There is in that city a place called Hlidskjalf, and when Odin is seated there on his lofty throne he sees over the whole world, discerns all the actions of men, and comprehends whatever he contemplates.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM C hristianity as

Original Size CHRISTIANITY AND PAGANISM C hristianity as an Asiatic cult is not suitable to European races.
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

conceiving and presenting character has a

He says: “Its manner of conceiving and presenting character has a certain resemblance, not elsewhere to be found in Shakespeare's writings, to the ideal manner of Marlowe.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

cup and platter callously helping at

All that night I denounced and reasoned with the erring pastor, twitted him with his ignorance and want of faith, twitted him with his wretched attitude, making clean the outside of the cup and platter, callously helping at a murder, childishly flying in excitement about a few childish, unnecessary, and inconvenient gestures; and long before day I had him on his knees and bathed in the tears of what seemed a genuine repentance.
— from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson

Chase and Phil cantering happily alongside

At three o'clock they set forth in a light roomy carriage,—not exactly a carryall, but of the carryall family,—with a pair of fast horses, Miss Chase and Phil cantering happily alongside, or before or behind, just as it happened.
— from Clover by Susan Coolidge

Caesar and postponed calling himself Augustus

Vitellius sent a manifesto on to Rome in which he declined the title of Caesar, and postponed calling himself Augustus without giving up any portion of 170 his power.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

create a profound calm hushing all

Let the Gospel be admitted into the heart, and it will create a profound calm, hushing all the tumult and strife of conscience, removing all apprehensions of Divine wrath, stilling all rebellion against the supreme Will, and so working in the spirit by the energy of the Holy Ghost a deep and blessed peace.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

Church and Politics combined he added

“I beg your pardon,” said Mr. Satan, “Latimer, Laud—Historic Interest, Church and Politics combined,” he added quickly.
— from Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring

curiosity and Peter Cooling had a

" Mollie needed no second bidding, for, sure, that Lord Denningham would not have spared her had he known of her curiosity, and Peter Cooling had a strap which he was not too tender a parent to use across an erring daughter's fair shoulders.
— from A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles

councils and private conversations he abstains

And what adds to their value is that, outside of councils and private conversations, he abstains from them, employing them only in the service of thought; at other times he subordinates them to the end he has in view, which is always their practical effect.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

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