Now, being irrevocably awake, you peep through the half-drawn window-curtain, and observe that the glass is ornamented with fanciful devices in frost-work, and that each pane presents something like a frozen dream.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Opiniones quasvis et decreta contra verbum Dei astruunt, ne non offendant patronum, sed ut retineant favorem procerum, et populi plausum, sibique ipsis opes accumulent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Aristotle (385-322), disciple of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great; founder of the Peripatetic school; greatest of philosophers, master of all knowledge—physics, metaphysics, natural philosophy, ethics, politics, poetics, sociology, logic, rhetoric, etc.; ii , 56 ; iii , 35 ; might have been a great orator, i , 4 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Emportured , pp. pourtrayed, S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
For even Porphyry promises some kind of purgation of the soul by the help of theurgy, though he does so with some hesitation and shame, and denies that this art can secure to any one a return to God; so that you can detect his opinion vacillating between the profession of philosophy and an art which he feels to be presumptuous and sacrilegious.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
But as far as regards the epic poem properly so called which celebrates the expedition of Ráma against the Rákshases I think that I have sufficiently shown that its origin and first appearance should be placed about the twelfth century B.C.; nor have I hitherto met with anything to oppose this chronological result, or to oblige me to rectify or reject it.…
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
Chapter Footnotes: [1] embarcaciones propias para , ships suitable for .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
para sí: —La gente de este pueblo parece ser muy pleitista.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Cf Vergil's account of Polydorus in Aeneid , iii, 41, in which a myrtle exclaims, Parce pias scelerare manus , etc. 284.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Descartes, in one of his letters to Elizabeth, princess palatine, says to her: "I confess, that by natural reason alone, we can form many conjectures about the soul, and conceive flattering hopes; but we can have no assurance."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire
[ton] huion autou ton monogene, ton kupion hemon, ton gennethenta ek pneumatos hagiou kai Marias tes parthenou, ton epi Pontiou Pilatou staurothenta kai taphenta, te trite hemera anastanta
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Every petty postmaster south of Mason and Dixon's line became ex officio a censor of the press.
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
Electricity-consumption per capita: 73 kWh (1995) Agriculture-products: cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava (tapioca), corn, rice, tropical fruits; beef, poultry Exports: total value: $226 million (f.o.b., 1996 est.) commodities: shrimp 40%, cashews, cotton, sugar, copra, citrus partners: Spain, South Africa, Japan, Portugal, US Imports: total value: $802 million (c.i.f., 1996 est.) commodities: food, clothing, farm equipment, petroleum partners: South Africa 38%, US, Japan, Portugal, France Debt-external: $5.7 billion (December 1997)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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