When he takes his glass from Katy, or listens to her remarks, or follows her with a glance as she goes out of the room for a little while, then I catch in his look something humble, prayerful, pure....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His prowess Philomelidies confess'd, And loud-acclaiming Greeks the victor bless'd; Then soon the invaders of his bed and throne Their love presumptuous shall with life atone.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

[Pg 296] Patriarchs, longevity of, 625 Paul, St., 283 , 532 , 672 , 682 , 852 Pelagians, the semi-, 776 Penitence, 660 , 922 People, ordinary, have the power of not thinking of that about which they do not want to think, 259 ; sound opinions of the people, 313 , 316 , 324 Perpetuity, 612 , 615 , 616 Perseus, 410 Persons, only three kinds of, 257 ; two kinds of, know God, 288 Peter, St., 671 , 743 Philosophers, the, have confused ideas of things, 72 ; influence of imagination upon, 82 ; disquiet inquirers, 184 ; made their ethics independent of the immortality of the soul, 219 , 220 ; have mastered their passions, 349 ; believe in God without Christ, 463 ; their motto, 464 ; have consecrated vices, 503 ; what they advise, 509 ; did not prescribe suitable feelings, 524 Piety, different from superstition, 255 Pilate, the false justice of, 790 Plato, 219 , 331 Poets, 34 , 38 , 39 Pope, the, 870 , 871 , 872 , 873 , 874 , 879 , 881 Port-Royal, 151 , 838 , 919 Prayer, why established, 513 Predictions of particular things, 710 ; of Cyrus, 712 ; of events in the fourth monarchy, 723 ; of the Messiah, 728 , 730 Present, we do not rest satisfied with the, 172 Presumption of men, 148 Pride, 152 , 153 , 406 Probability, the Jesuitical doctrine of, 901 , 907 , 909 , 912 , 915 , 916 , 917 , 919 , 921 Proofs, of religion, 289 , 290 ; metaphysical, of God, 542 Prophecies, the, entrusted to the Jews, 570 ; the strongest proof of Christ, 705 ; necessarily distributed, 706 ; about Christ, 709 , 726 , 730 , 732 , 735 ; proofs of divinity, 712 ; in Egypt, 725 Prophets, the, prophesied by symbols, 652 ; their discourses obscure, 658 ; their meaning veiled, 677 ; zeal after the, 702 ; did not speak to flatter the people, 718 ; foretold, 738 Propositions, the five, 830 , 849 Purgatory, 518 Provincial Letters , the, 52 , 919 Pyrrhus, advice given to, 139 Rabbinism, chronology of, 634 Reason and the imagination, 82 ; and the senses, 83 ; recognises an infinity of things beyond it, 267 ; submission of, 268 , 269 , 270 , 272 ; the heart and, 277 , 278 , 282 ; and instinct, 344 , 395 ; commands us imperiously, 345 ; and the passions, 412 , 413 ; corruption of, 440 Reasoning, reduces itself to yielding to feeling, 274 Redemption, the Red Sea an image of the, 642 ; the completeness of the, 780 Religion, its true nature and the necessity of studying it, 194 ; sinfulness of indifference to it, 195 ; whether certain, 234 ; suited to all kinds of minds, 285 ; true, 470 , 494 ; test of the falsity of a, 487 ; two ways of proving its truths, 560 ; the Christian, has something astonishing in it, 614 ; the Christian, founded upon a preceding, 618 ; reasons for preferring the Christian, 736 ; three marks of, 843 ; and natural reason, 902 Republic, the Christian, 482 , 610 Rivers, moving roads, 17 Roannez, M. de, a saying of, 276 Rule, a, necessary to judge a work, 5 Sabbath, the, only a sign, 609 Sacrifices, of the Jews and Gentiles, 609 Salvation, happiness of those who hope for, 239 Scaramouch, 12 Scepticism, 373 , 376 , 378 , 385 , 392 , 394 ; truth of, 432 ; chief arguments of, 434 Sciences, vanity of the, 67 Scripture, and the number of stars, 266 ; its order, 283 ; has provided passages for all conditions of life, 531 ; literal inspiration of, 567 ; blindness of, 572 ; and Mahomet, 597 ; extravagant opinions founded on, 650 ; how to understand, 683 , 686 ; [Pg 297] against those who misuse passages of, 898 Self, necessary to know, 66 ; the little knowledge we have of, 175 Sensations, and molecules, 368 Senses, perceptions of the, always true, 9 ; perceive no extreme, 72 ; mislead the reason, 83 Silence, eternal, of infinite space, 206 ; the greatest persecution, 919 Sin, original, 445 , 446 , 447 Sneezing, absorbs all the functions of the soul, 160 Soul, immortality of the, 194 , 219 , 220 ; immaterial, 349 Spongia solis , 91 Stoics, the, 350 , 360 , 465 Struggle, the, alone pleases us, 135 Style, charm of a natural, 29 Swiss, the, 305 Symmetry, 28 Synagogue, the, a type, 645 , 851 Talent, chief, 118 Temple, reprobation of the, 712 Testaments, proof of the two, at once, 641 ; proof that the Old is figurative, 658 ; the Old and the New, 665 Theology, a science, 115 Theresa, St., 499 , 867 , 916 Thought, one, alone occupies us, 145 ; constitutes man's greatness, 346 ; and dignity, 365 ; sometimes escapes us, 370 , 372 Time, effects of, 122 , 123 Truth, nothing shows man the, 83 ; different degrees in man's aversion to, 100 ; the pretext that it is disputed, 261 ; known by the heart, 282 ; we desire, 437 ; here is not the country of, 842 ; obscure in these times, 863 Types, 570 , 642 , 643 , 644 , 645 , 656 , 657 , 658 , 669 , 674 , 678 , 686 ; the law typical, 646 , 684 ; some, clear and demonstrative, 649 ; particular, 651 , 652 , 653 ; are like portraits, 676 , 677 ; the sacrifices are, 679 , 684 Tyranny, 332 Understanding, different kinds of, 2 Universe, the relation of man to the, 72 ; his superiority to it, 347 Vanity, is anchored in man's heart, 150 ; effects of, 151 , 153 ; curiosity only, 152 ; little known, 161 ; love and, 162 , 163 ; only youths do not see the world's, 164 Variety, 114 , 115 Vices, some, only lay hold on us through others, 102 Virtues, division of, 20 ; measure of, 352 ; excess of, 353 , 357 ; only the balancing of opposed vices, 359 ; the true, 485 Weariness, in leaving favourite pursuits, 128 ; nothing so insufferable to man as,
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

They got him into his proper position at last, and then the others followed.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Culture and Anarchy , the most characteristic work of his practical period, appeared in 1869.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The amount of preserved vision which Goltz and Luciani report seems hardly to be worth considering, on the one hand; and on the other, Munk admits in his penultimate paper that out of 85 dogs he only 'succeeded' 4 times in his operation of producing complete blindness by complete extirpation of his 'Sehsphäre.'
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

His present plan of action had arisen without reasoning.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

of Aguinaldo’s decree of June 18th, previous, providing an organic law or constitution for his provisional government (see Chapter II., ante ) had provided precisely the organization which Wilcox and Sargent thus saw working at Aparri and throughout the Cagayan valley in October, 1898.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

was Robespierre’s sanctimonious reply to his passionate protest.
— from Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon

The old legal grants ( concessi ) to young girls who married could not, nor can they now, be claimed without this ceremony; and the bride does not enter into possession of the legacy which she has acquired until she shows to the proper person the certificate of her parish priest that she has been married and espoused ( 'nguaggiatu e sposatu ).
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

When we come to examine this play, we find that the character which unquestionably interested the poet most was Strafford’s; not because of his political principles but because of his devotion to his King.
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

I took him at his word and, having designed a rubber stamp, made him produce packets of the four kinds of tickets used, ran them through a consecutive enumerator, and stamped them all.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Michael had prepared the way of Sylvia’s coming by telling his mother the identity of the “nice young lady” at the concert; he had also impressed on her the paramount importance of not saying anything with regard to him that could possibly embarrass the nice young lady, and when Sylvia came to tea a few days later, he was quite without any uneasiness, while for himself he was only conscious of that thirst for her physical presence, the desire, as he had said to Aunt Barbara, “just to see her.”
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Hence they maliciously say, that we deny any Heaven or Hell but that which is within us, and that we deny any general Judgment; which Slanders the Lord knows are foully cast upon us, whom God hath raised for this End, and gathered us, that by us he might confound the Wisdom of the Wise, and bring to Nought the Understanding of the Prudent; and might, in and by his own Spirit and Power in a despised People (that no Flesh might glory in his Presence) pull down that dead, dark, corrupt Image, and mere Shadow and Shell of Christianity wherewith Antichrist hath deceived the Nations: For which End he hath called us to be a First-fruits of those that serve him, and worship him no more in the Oldness of the Letter, but in the Newness of the Spirit.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

So the Tracer laid his pencil point on the next symbol "That is the symbol for night," he said; "and that is the water symbol again, as you know; and that is the ideograph, meaning a ship.
— from The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

“Then he took agues—and afterwards scrofula—under his protection; patronized by his old dowager, and lucky in some of his desperate quackery, Dr. Frumpton’s reputation rapidly increased, and from different counties fools came to consult him.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

Arundel Dacre walks the room disturbed; often he pauses, plunged in deep thought.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield