Tsuwe′năhĭ , myth of 343 – 345 , 480 – 481 Tuckasegee , destruction of (1781) 69 Tugălû′nă fish , myth concerning 289 , 455 Tuggle manuscript on Creek myths 431 , 432 , 434 – 436 , 447 – 450 , 452 , 455 , 463 , 469 , 473 , 476 Tuggle manuscript on Creek songs 504 Tunâ′ĭ , legend of 373 Tupi language , trade language based on 187 Turkey , myths and lore concerning 269 – 270 , 285 , 287 – 288 , 449 , 455 Turkeytown , siege and relief of 90 Turkeytown , treaty ratified at (1816) 98 Turtle , drum of shell of 503 Turtle , myths and lore concerning 306 , 343 , 346 , 430 , 452 , 475 , 481 , 482 Turtle dove , Cherokee name for 281 Tusayan , memoir on clan localization in xli Tusayan , memoir on Flute and Snake ceremonies of xlv Tusayan , memoir on migration traditions of xxxix–xl Tusayan , study of fraternities, cults, and altars in xlvii, xlviii–xlix, l–liii Tusayan , work in xiv
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney
[Pg 219] and to preach the Gospel to the lowly, Is. xxix; to open the eyes of the blind, give health to the sick, and bring light to those that languish in darkness.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
We found it the more necessary to send this message, as we learnt in Xacatcinco, that the whole of Tlascalla was up in arms against us.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
But hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can be quenched by love (III. xliii.), so that hatred may pass into love (III. xliv.); therefore he who lives under the guidance of reason will endeavour to repay hatred with love, that is, with kindness.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
After them Halstead Hall was owned by a family of the name of Evington, one of whom, Richard, left “iiijli xs to be paid yearlie, at the discretion of my executors, to the poor of Stixwolde, on the 25 March and 29 Sept.”
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
LIFE IV XI This was the beginning of a new era.
— from Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton
The introduction of American artificial legs into [xvi] this country has not been so revolutionary in its results as it is apparently in France, for we have been accustomed for many years to make the bucket out of a single piece of willow.
— from Artificial Limbs by Auguste Broca
He was only an Academy boy yesterday, or a theologue; unknown, unnoticed, saying his lesson in Xenophon, taking his notes on the Nicene Creed; blamed a little, possibly, by his teacher or by his professor, for inattention.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various
He is frequently represented also in the gigantic frescoes of the Byzantine cupolas clothed with awful majesty and bearing the title Ο ΠΑΝΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ , the Almighty; but the addition of the letters IC XC , the contraction for Jesus Christ, assure us that it is not the Father but the Son who is meant.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
If toads ever occupied the one-legged seat assigned them from time immemorial, they have learned in xx this enlightened age that the ground is much more reliable, and so squat upon it, except when exercising their constitutional right to hop.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine
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