The Greek gods, to be sure, always continued to have genealogies, and the fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality; but other religions, and finally the Greek philosophers themselves, conceived unbegotten gods, in whom the human rebellion against mutability was expressed absolutely.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

There is a great deal surely to be found in books of rhetoric? SOCRATES:
— from Phaedrus by Plato

The choice seems to lie between Felix III, Bishop of Rome, 483-492, and Felix IV, 526-530.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Failures in baking often result from the use of sour milk and soda, or even home made mixtures of cream of tartar and soda, because of inability to determine the uncertain strength of such materials and hence the proper proportions to use.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

And, as washing with water is none the less a purifying, because it does not cleanse or transform the filthiness, itself, but only removes it,—so, none the less is the baptism of fire a baptism, because it does not cleanse, but punishes the wicked.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

The tide, at the last reach of the ebb for nearly an hour past, was now on the flood: though the first indeterminate babble of returning waters was scarce different from the lapsing ebb-music in aught save a gurgling swiftly repetitive undertone.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp

There had been a great deal of discussion, of late, with reference to a fact long known to a few individuals, but only recently made a matter of careful scientific observation and brought to the notice of the public.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The "Memoirs" have served their turn as a guide and aid to more regular historians, and the composition which still keeps its author's fame alive is his Correspondence with some of his numerous friends, male and female, in England or abroad, which he maintained with an assiduity which showed how pleasurable he found the task, while the care with which he secured the preservation of his letters, begging his correspondents to retain them, in case at any future time he should desire their return, proves that he anticipated the possibility that they might hereafter be found interesting by other readers than to those to whom they were addressed.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

M. Yard. Hacienda de Cuisillos, Jalisco: handpainted wall fresco in bedroom of ruined residence.
— from The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record by Paul Alexander Bartlett

N 17 ‘17 210w “It contains little or none of the personal gossip ordinarily to be found in books of reminiscences, but there are, instead, some unforgettable impressions of mid-Victorian worthies. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

It could not reinstate firms in business; or refund to the masters their wasted capital; or collect the hands it scattered over the country, to find a bit of work, to beg, or to starve; or bring the dead back to life.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Since those days I have found my way to and from Italy by other roads which I recommend strongly to others.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

Organisms of the Boulder-clay not unequivocal—First Impressions of the Boulder-clay—Difficulty of accounting for its barrenness of Remains—Sir Charles Lyell's reasoning—A Fact to the contrary—Human Skull dug from a Clay-bank—The Author's Change of Belief respecting Organic Remains of the Boulder-clay—Shells from the Clay at Wick—Questions respecting them settled—Conclusions confirmed by Mr. Dick's Discoveries at Thurso—Sir John Sinclair's Discovery of Boulder-clay Shells in 1802—Comminution of the Shells illustrated— Cyprina islandica —Its Preservation in larger Proportions than those of other Shells accounted for—Boulder-clays of Scotland reformed during the existing Geological Epoch—Scotland in the Period of the Boulder-clay "merely three detached groups of Islands"—Evidence of the Subsidence of the Land in Scotland—Confirmed by Rev. Mr. Cumming's conclusion—High-lying Granite Boulders—Marks of a succeeding elevatory Period—Scandinavia now rising—Autobiography of a Boulder desirable—A Story of the Supernatural.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller