" Moreover, the means that in general she looks to for [Pg xxxiv] realising God's nearness, in whatever measure or manner the revelation of it may come to any soul, is the immediate one of faith as a gift of nature and a grace from the Holy Ghost: faith leading by prayer, and effort of obedience, and teachableness of spirit, into actual experience of oneness with God.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian
Adams has probably been misled by some notice of the ‘Pompeian forceps’ ( Pl. XLIII ), which many consider adapted for removing [Pg 157] the cranial bones when the child’s head is broken up in cephalotripsy.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
After this the king had certain ingenious persons brought from [Pg xlviii] Heliopolis, and gave them a great banquet, to which the Phrygian was invited.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine
The boy Conradin, grandson of Frederick, [Pg xliv] nephew of Manfred, and in a sense the last of the Hohenstaufens, came to Italy to measure himself with Charles, and paid for his audacity upon the scaffold.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
As in the coin figured Plate xvii.,
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman
There seems proof, too, that till the Paradiso was written Dante entertained no great respect for the Scala family ( Purg. xvi.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς it occurs in a quotation from Ps. xxiv (xxiii).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
La Fontaine, established as poet-in-ordinary to Fouquet, received a pension of a thousand livres, on condition that he furnished, [Pg xvi] once in every three months, a copy of laudatory verses.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine
Q.E.D. Note.—This proposition follows more clearly from Prop. xvi.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
8: The same writer says that Helicaon was wounded in the night-battle, but was recognised by Odysseus and by him conducted alive out of the fight... Pausanias, x. 27.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
"Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers."— Proverbs xvii.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp
The charge can also be exploded in the ordinary manner, viz., by means of the firing pin, X, when the torpedo runs into any solid object.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various
The next variation is as follows:— Psalm xxxi.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren
Decorative Forgings [Plate XVI]
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner
Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage Navigation Panel Next: Troubleshooting the Boot Process Up: Troubleshooting Previous: Troubleshooting   Contents   Index End of Navigation Panel Table of Child-Links Subsections Working with Strangely-Named Files Printing X Problems End of Table of Child-Links Common Difficulties
— from Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Ossama Othman
There is another most serious, really insurmountable difficulty, for [Pg xix] me or anyone else who attempts to write of modern illustration: no illustrations are catalogued to any extent; only the most important illustrators find a place in either the catalogues of South Kensington Art Library or the British Museum; therefore a few years, even a few weeks, after an illustrated book is published, if it has already passed through several editions, it may require hours to find the edition one wants.
— from Modern Illustration by Joseph Pennell
The political situation presupposed in it—however unlikely it seemed to the historian but a few years ago—has turned out to be in strict harmony with fact; the names of the chief actors in it have come down to us with scarcely any alteration, and a fragment of old-world history, which could not be fitted [pg xvii] into the scheme of the modern historian, has proved to be part of a larger story which the clay books of Babylonia are gradually unfolding before our eyes.
— from Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
When, by aid of this smell, they are discovered, generally settled on an ash, they are collected in the following manner:—Very early in the morning a cloth of light tissue is stretched out at the foot of the tree, and the branches are shaken, which causes the insects to fall ( Plate XII. ).
— from The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species by Louis Figuier
9.— For , when it signifies because , is a conjunction: as, "Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."— Prov. , xxvii, 1.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
|