You laugh, Drake; and you are right, for I doubt if many of us thought then in that strain.
— from Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors by William Henry Giles Kingston

But as the sun, the nearer he is, the more the earth is enlightened: so here, first some dawning of light appears, as a messenger of hope, to tell that the Redeemer shall come,—that the true sacrifice shall be slain; then still the nearer his own appearing, the clearer are the manifestations of him, and the great design is more opened up, till at length he breaks out in glory from under a cloud, and shows himself to the world, to be that Lamb of God that should take away the sins of the world.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning