My grandfather’s godmother was wont to say to me when I was a boy,— Patenostres et oraisons Sont pour ceux-la, qui les retiennent.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Since Aubrey, many references to it have been made, but never, so far as I can discover, by any writer in the Welsh language—a singular omission if there ever was such a custom, for concerning every other superstitious practice commonly ascribed to Wales the Welsh have written freely.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The shovelfuls of loam, black as jet, brought there by the river when it was as wide as the whole valley, were an essence of soils, pounded champaigns of the past, steeped, refined, and subtilized to extraordinary richness, out of which came all the fertility of the mead, and of the cattle grazing there.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But, if it was not a lost letter, with which of the Canonical Epistles of St Paul can we identify it with most probability?
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Porta Vitis laurum non amat, nec ejus odorem; si prope crescat, enecat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When a stimulus is repeated more frequently than the expenditure of sensorial power can be renewed in the acting organ, the effect of the stimulus becomes gradually diminished.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

Full well my power is known and seen in all the world about, When I do strike of force do yeeld both noble, wise, and stout, &c. Printed cullored and sould by R. Walton at the Globe and Compasses at the West end of St. Paules church turning down towards Ludgate.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

Psychology, however, as a would-be 'Science,' must, like every other Science, postulate complete determinism in its facts, and abstract consequently from the effects of free will, even if such a force exist.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

I might have flattered myself that my sentiments were sufficiently known to have protected me against suspicions of narrow thoughts, contracted sentiments, bigoted, enthusiastic, or superstitious principles, civil, political, philosophical, or ecclesiastical.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Hence the college of cardinals has been divided into a certain number of sections, to each of which pertains the examination of some particular class of cases.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

My grandfather's godmother was wont to say to me when I was a boy,— Patenostres et oraisons Sont pour ceux-la, qui les retiennent.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by François Rabelais