We can overcome to some degree the difficulty of uncertain recollection in the dream if we determine that exactly what the dreamer tells us is to be taken as his dream, without regard to anything which he has forgotten or may have changed in recollection.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Last Monday was a day of universal rejoicing in this town, occasioned by the arrival of the news of the splendid victory gained by Lord Nelson over the Danes in Copenhagen Roads on the 2nd of April last: in the morning the great guns at the Garrison were fired: at night there was a general illumination, and bonfires blazed in almost every direction."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
Again, what the Doctor observes, Page 245, is worthy of Notice,—“Though there must be a very good Sense , in which Christ may be said to die for all Men, because the Scripture uses this Language; yet it does not follow, that the Doctrine of Universal Redemption is found there: I cannot find that Scripture once asserts that Christ redeemed all Men, or died to redeem them all.”
— from Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. by Richard Finch
The United States after her Civil War, and Germany after her unification and the Franco-Prussian War, had achieved an immense industrial development, opening up resources in coal and iron that made them formidable competitors.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens
We reject this doctrine of unconditional reprobation, In the second place , because it impeaches the Divine sincerity .
— from The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
"She cannot be so dishonest or ungrateful," replied I. "Coxswain, I order you to stay—I am an officer."
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
He would have shrunk from this alternative, indeed, under ordinary circumstances—not from any feeling of honour, but, what weighed more with him, from the scruples of superstition; but his dread of ulterior retribution, if it occurred to him at all, now sank under his apprehension of present detection.
— from Hildebrand; or, The Days of Queen Elizabeth, An Historic Romance, Vol. 3 of 3 by Anonymous
There is in the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception no shadow of encroachment on the doctrine of universal redemption in Christ; there is simply the belief that for the merits of the Son the Mother was spared any moment of separation from the Father.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry
It handicapped the fire-control severely, and already they were beginning to feel, what the Commander-in-Chief says was a characteristic of the whole period during which the Grand Fleet was intermittently in action, viz., the extreme difficulty of using rangefinders in the shifting and indifferent light.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen
Her secret ailment had not seemed to improve under the constant application of the peddler's medicine, and, as her doubts of ultimate recovery increased correspondingly, her strength seemed to wane.
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
|