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Quels que fussent au reste les sentiments de M. de Rumford pour les hommes, ils ne diminuaient en rien son respect pour la divinité.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones
The movement in Homer is natural, direct, even, rapid; and yet this natural, simple, deep gush of feeling presents to us a most truthful, touching, and expressive picture of a soul overwhelmed with tender love and sorrow commingled, but facing the stern task of duty.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various
i. p. 336), ‘L'aliénation mentale, que les anciens peuples regardaient comme une inspiration ou une punition des dieux, qui dans la suite fut prise pour la possession des démons, qui dans d'autres temps passa pour une œuvre de la magie; l'aliénation mentale, dis-je, avec toutes ses espèces et ses variétés innombrables, ne diffère en rien des autres maladies.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle
If other ladies are to be mounted, move on so far that they will be in no danger, either real or imaginary, from your horse’s heels, and never at any time put him in such a position that he can kick any one, or that you can get kicked yourself by any other horse.
— from Horsemanship for Women by Theodore H. (Theodore Hoe) Mead
There is no direct evidence regarding them, and the testimony of writers in the third century, like Hippolytus, is of no value for the Gospels.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
“Vere proximè elapso, per Gallias passim ingravescere coeperunt febres mali moris in nobiles domos, et regiam praecipue infestae; quò Ludovicum Magnum ipsa infortunia ostenderent Majorem, et patientia Christianissima Maximum.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton
: 'defent tort et force, ou et quant il devera et dit qil fuist le vilein Labbe, per qi il ne deveroit estre resceve.' Devom. : 'il covient qe vous disez plus qe vous estes seisi, ut supra,' etc. Migg. : 'il est nostre vileyn, et nous seisi de luy come de nostre vileyn.' Ber. : 'Coment seisi come,' etc.?
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
That is not exactly that way, this is offset, you have to come over here to go up, it is not drawn exactly right, we walked across here to the elevators straight through.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
Thus the total energy of the nerve cell or the neuron may be divided into normal dynamic energy, reserve energy, static energy, and organic or necrotic energy.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis
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