Sagapen , dissolved in juice of rue and taken, wonderfully breaks the stone in the bladder, expels the dead child and afterbirth, clears the sight; dissolved in wine and drank, it helps the cough, and distillation upon the lungs, and the fits of the mother; outwardly in oils or ointments, it helps such members as are out of joint or over-stretched.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In regard to the first it is not necessary to show what crimes are committed because of anger, jealousy, or rage, and how frequently terror and fear lead to extremes otherwise inexplicable—these facts are partly so well known, partly so very numerous and various, that an exposition would be either superfluous or impossible.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

IMG It is taken from Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, vol. xviii., p. 894.
— 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

They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as before, and they have already proclaimed that there is no crime, that there is no sin.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Elias taught throughout, as George Fox began it, or rather reiterated and verified it, the Platonic doctrine that the ideals of character, of justice, of religious action, whenever the highest is at stake, are to be conform'd to no outside doctrine of creeds, Bibles, legislative enactments, conventionalities, or even decorums, but are to follow the inward Deity-planted law of the emotional soul.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In this personal identity is founded all the right and justice of reward and punishment.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Now the Jains officially recognize all the Gods of the Hindu creed, as well as the Lingam and the Snake.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Think how the joys of reading a Gazette Are purchased by all agonies and crimes:
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Was the emotion caused by this unexpected discovery surprise and joy, or regret and fear?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

He was erroneously associated in the foreign mind with the revolutionary acts that followed; and when, on the contrary, for self-preservation, he fled to London to escape the stigma of those very acts and the malice of the very men who perpetrated them, he was ordered out of England as a Jacobin or regicide and found a refuge in America.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

His own wife and children he long since abandoned and disowned; and the youth yonder, whom he describes as a Georgian slave rescued from the Grand Signior's galleys, is in fact the wife of a Greek juggler of Ravenna, and has forsaken her husband to live in criminal intercourse with an atheist and assassin.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

Hers was the justice of revenge and there are no circumstances can mitigate one woman in another's eyes when she transgresses as Mary had done.
— from The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Also, any similar pit or depression, as that on the scape of a feather at junction of rhachis and calamus.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

the Jews of, rebel against Trajan, 2 , 394 , 395 , 396 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

The city and all that is in it shall be sacrificed to Jehovah; only Rahab and those who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent."
— from The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman

Now it is precisely this contradiction between the judgment of reason and that of the understanding which produces in us this quite special phenomenon, this mixed feeling, called forth in us by the sight of the simple—I mean the simple in the manner of thinking.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

He walked home, pondering deeply, his thoughts a curious jumble of relief and dissatisfaction.
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln