[ 256 ] One David Lloyd, a biographer, issued a tract entitled "Wonders no Miracles, or Mr. Valentine Greatrakes' Gift of Healing Examined," wherein he endeavored to show that the famous "Irish stroaker" was little better than an impostor.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
They showed me some fine diamonds, very beautifully set in that rich, red "gold of Ophir" which makes our yellow western gold look like a brazen imitation, as they evidently thought, for they took off my opal ring, and holding the gold against their own ornaments, made gestures of disapproval.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
A dark object will appear bluest in proportion as it has a greater mass of luminous atmosphere between it and the eye.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo
Religion is concerned with experiences which at one and the same time must possess a universal character, belong to our own life, and be immediately accessible to each.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken
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