v. 18. 19. are verily persuaded that those good works of the Gentiles did so far please God, that they might vitam aeternam promereri , and be saved in the end.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
The muse herself betrays her son, and enhances the gift of wealthy and well-born beauty, by a radiation out [199] of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,—a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of the air.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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