That is why this massive group of peaks is known as "The Mother and Child," a name preserved even by our cartographers.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson
Your men of promptitude without genius or power, including knowledge and will, are those who present the wedge the wrong way.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown
The Work of Reformation , and particularly the growth of people in knowledg and the grace of Jesus Christ, will extreamly be obstructed and hindered; and whosoever shall be any cause or occasion thereof, will but uncomfortably answer it unto Jesus Christ .
— from A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry by Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall Assembly
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