The worlds are different, but they are worlds; and though the attitude of the giants is different also, it agrees in all of them on the points of competence and strength.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding
2 Before the thieving Koravas set out on a predatory expedition, a goat is decorated, and taken to a shrine.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
He drew a long breath as he threw back the last great iron door and stepped into the fetid slime within.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
(4) "Resurrection" which was intended to [Pg 140] mean the entrance to the "true life," in the sense of being intellectually "born again," becomes an historical contingency, supposed to take place at some moment after death; (5) The teaching of the Son of man as the "Son of God,"—that is to say, the life-relationship between man and God,—becomes the "second person of the Trinity," and thus the filial relationship of every man—even the lowest—to God, is done away with ; (6) Salvation through faith (that is to say, that there is no other way to this filial relationship to God, save through the practice of life taught by Christ) becomes transformed into the belief that there is a miraculous way of atoning for all sin ; though not through our own endeavours, but by means of Christ: For all these purposes, "Christ on the Cross" had to be interpreted afresh.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It was a very general idea during a former period, but subsequently to the time when the bend and bendlet sinister and the bordure were recognised as in the nature of the accepted marks of bastardy, and when their penal nature was admitted, that whatever mark was adopted for the purpose of indicating illegitimacy need only be borne for three generations.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
But, even if I had—as has been often charged—labored to bring American institutions generally into disrepute, and had not confined my labors strictly within the limits of humanity and morality, I should not have been without illustrious examples to support me.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Now King Thidrec of Bern saw what Grimhild is doing, and speaks to King Attila.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
Further, we remember that this objectification of will was found to have many definite grades, in which, with gradually increasing distinctness and completeness, the nature of will appears in the idea, that is to say, presents itself as object.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
You cannot introduce another being as God in the infinite sense until the first-named infinite God is dethroned and put out of existence, and this, of course, is a self-evident impossibility.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
Every good thing is gone into dens and holes, and every vile thing that can hiss and spit and sting is crawling abroad.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Hence, this plan, while increasing facility of navigation, only robs Peter to pay Paul, so far as protection is concerned; for what is gained in depth and speed, is necessarily lost in breadth.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey
He told her all that he could of the work and Truxton and the men, going into detail as he found that she followed him, that Tommy Garton had not exaggerated when he had said that she knew every sand-hill and hollow.
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory
Real incomes rise and generate increased demand and production.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
“Well, as my eyesight is putty good, I do,” and the old farmer chuckled.
— from The Rover Boys Down East; or, The Struggle for the Stanhope Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer
The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins.
— from The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
For minutes the two boys fought in desperation; then Jon grunted in disgust at his thoughtlessness, and yanked out his flame-gun.
— from The Planet Mappers by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans
The servants talked of seeing appearances of a gentleman in drab and of a lady in silk, which Mrs. Ricketts disregarded.
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang
I suspect it had already got into debt and was in difficulties, and it is possible that the king's visit was made in the interest of the foundation.
— from The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
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