Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Had the Critique of Pure Reason done nothing but first point out this distinction, it had thereby contributed more to clear up our conception of, and to guide our inquiry in, the field of metaphysics, than all the vain efforts which have hitherto been made to satisfy the transcendent problems of pure reason, without ever surmising that we were in quite another field than that of the understanding, and hence classing concepts of the understanding and those of reason together, as if they were of the same kind.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

lingkús v [B; b6] for s.t. long to curl up or come out in knotted form.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This insures the carrying up of coffee only, the stones remaining at the bottom of the machine and being dumped at intervals into a pan underneath.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As to the divine and sacred spirit of the Muses, the poet of the Trojan war, Homer, did not many cities claim him as theirs, because he did not cry up one city only?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I Impressionism, 195 , 257 Impressionist vision, 61 Ingres, studies of, 73 , 274 Ink used in lithography, 282 Intellect and feeling, 19 Intuitions, 17 Italian Renaissance, the, 51 Italian work in the fifteenth century, 34 J Japanese art, 21 Japanese method, a, 47 Japanese and Chinese use of contrasts of colour, 208 K Keats' definition of beauty, 22 L Landscapes of Watteau, the, 211 Lang, Andrew, his definition of art, 19 Lawrence, Lord, portrait of, 250 Lead pencil, 192 , 274 Lecoq de Boisbaudran, M., 260 Lehmann, R., portraits by, 250 Leonardo da Vinci, 51 , 206 , 227 Light, 38 Light and shade, principles of, 51 , 95 Lighting and light effects, 202 Likeness, catching the, 240 Line and the circle, the, 137 Line drawing and mass drawing, 48 , 50 Lines expressing repose or energy, 163 Line, the power of the, 50 , 80 Lines, value of, in portrait-painting, 138 Lines of shading, different, 102 , 123 Lithographic chalk, 192 Lithography, 281 "Love and Death," Watts', 156 M Manet, 206 Mass drawing, 49 , 58 , 80 , 81 , 110 Masters, past and modern, 272 Materials, 271 Mathematical proportions, 228 Measuring comparative distances, 88 Measurements, vertical and horizontal, 88 Medium, the use of, 111 Michael Angelo, the figures of, 33 , 53 , 56 Michael Angelo and Degas, 66 Millais, 196 Mist, effect of a, on the tone of a picture, 188 Model, the, 61 , 81 Monet, Claude, 118 Morris's definition of art, 19 N Nature, variety of forms in, 187 Nature's tendency to pictorial unity of arrangement, 186 Newspaper as a background, 99 Norman architecture, 148
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Things concern us, of course, only just as they concern him.
— from Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life by Anthony Trollope

But the constrictor understood one chapter of herpetology better than we—for the next moment we saw him drop to the ground; and, almost as quick as thought, appear lapped in sable folds around the speckled body of the ‘crotalus!’
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

Cases have come under our care of young wives who have required months of careful treatment to repair the damage inflicted on their wedding night.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

Then add more olive oil, then more acid, continuing until one cup of olive oil and two teaspoons of vinegar or lemon juice are all used.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

For the first time we have a wide countryside under one conception of law.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Can we, without putting constraint upon ourselves, confine our thoughts to everyday things at times when the sea stretches before us, and we are face to face with the night?
— from The Treasure of the Humble by Maurice Maeterlinck

Again, people who are in charge often seem to have a pride in feeling that they will be "missed," that no one can understand or carry on their arrangements, their system, books, accounts, &c., but themselves.
— from Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale

Calling up one company of the resting French troops under the veteran African fighter, Captain Alliez, for support, Col. Sutherland asked Major Young to divide his two American companies into two detachments for making the flank marches and attacks upon the Red positions.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore