[26] I have judged it right to mention this, because some are of opinion that charity or regard ( dilectio ) is one thing, love ( amor ) another.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

There are so few well-made persons of both sexes, that nakedness might have inspired chastity, or rather disgust, instead of increasing desire.
— from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

cal compilations of recent date in our own language.
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

The Tetractys, composed of round dots instead of jods, was revered among them.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The term disinfection signifies the removal and destruction, or destruction and subsequent removal of the products of destruction, of all matters actually being or containing products of disease capable of reproducing disease in other animals.
— from On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon

Spain, composed of races dissimilar in origin, religion, and government, slowly ascended by progressive combinations among principalities and provinces, till at last, in the fifteenth century, by the crowning union of Castile and Aragon, the whole country, with its various sovereignties, was united under one common rule.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It is a grim conglomeration of rubble, dilapidated ivy, of thin snow blotches, and of burst water-pipes.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

My memory merges this early conversation on religious doctrine into one which took place years later when I put before my father the situation in which I found myself at boarding school when under great evangelical pressure, and once again I heard his testimony in favor of "mental integrity above everything else."
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

Feeling that both were now out of the force of the current, he caught it in his arms, and ere any of us had either time or presence of mind even to proffer assistance, he carried, or rather dragged it out of the water, and laid it on the dry bank.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Five days in jail pending the obtaining of a certificate of reasonable doubt, if one could be obtained!
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser