The boy could not learn his arithmetic, except he set himself resolutely to his task; and no man can learn of God, except he also fulfils the conditions, except he consecrate himself wholly to the acquisition of this knowledge, except his soul is poured out in love to God; "for every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God ."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Hinchman and Gummere's Lives of Great English Writers (Houghton, Mifflin) is a good single volume, containing thirty-eight biographies.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Such a person is apt to be rough with slaves, unlike the educated man, who is too proud for that; and he will also be courteous to freemen, and remarkably obedient to authority; he is a lover of power and a lover of honour; claiming to be a ruler, not because he is eloquent, or on any ground of that sort, but because he is a soldier and has performed feats of arms; he is also a lover of gymnastic exercises and of the chase.
— from The Republic by Plato

Nor was there any danger from lack of grain either.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Großabnehmer quantity buyer Großaufnahme close-up Großauftrag; Auftrag für unverpackte Ware bulk order Großbetrieb large firm Größe size große Auswahl an Ware variety of goods große gemeinschaftliche Havarie general average große Havarie general average Großeinkauf bulk buying großer Auftrag large order großer Einkaufsmarkt hypermarket größer; bedeutender major größere Beträge substantial amounts größere Schwierigkeit major difficulty größerer Fehler major defect großes Passagierflugzeug airliner Großhandel wholesale Großhandel wholesale trade Großhandelsangebot wholesale quotation Großhandelsbezirk wholesale district Großhandelseinkaufsgenossenschaft wholesale cooperative society Großhandelsfunktion wholesale function Großhandelsgenossenschaft wholesale cooperative Großhandelsgeschäft wholesale business Großhandelslagerhaus wholesale warehouse Großhandelsmarkt wholesale market Großhandelspreis wholesale price Großhandelspreisindex index of wholesale prices Großhandelspreisindex wholesale price index Großhandelsrabatt wholesale discount Großhandelsspanne wholesale margin Großhandelsunternehmen wholesale establishment Großhandelsvereinigung wholesale association
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Tho fillen they in othere tales glade, Til at the laste, `O good eem,' quod she tho, `For love of god, which that us bothe made, 500 Tel me how first ye wisten of his wo: Wot noon of hit but ye?'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

It is not to be supposed that a lady, or gentleman either, has been leading the life of a book worm.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In the Lay of Grimner (Elder Edda) the following names of Odin are enumerated: 245 Grim is my name And Ganglere, Herjan and Helmet-bearer, Thekk and Thride, Thud and Ud, Helblinde and Har, Sad and Svipal, And Sanngetal, Herteit and Hnikar, Bileyg and Baleyg, Bolverk, Fjolner, Grim and Grimner, Glapsvid and Fjolsvid, Sidhot, Sidskeg, Sigfather, Hnikud, Alfather, Valfather, Atrid and Farmatyr.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

These are held as canonical, not by the Jews, but by the Church, on account of the extreme and wonderful sufferings of certain martyrs, who, before Christ had come in the flesh, contended for the law of God even unto death, and endured most grievous and horrible evils.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The life of God enters our world by two paths—personally, through individuals whom it recreates, and by whom it remakes society; socially, through a new communal order which reshapes the men and women who live under it.
— from Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin

She had just been reading the life of George Eliot, her favorite author, and the book lay open at her picture.
— from Beth Woodburn by Maud Petitt

↑ 247 See letter of Governor Estevan Miro to Robertson, April 20, 1783, in Roosevelt, Winning of the West, II , p. 407, 1889.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Perhaps the better way to teach you how to develop the Yogi Complete Breath, would be to give you simple directions regarding the breath itself, and then follow up the same with general remarks concerning it, and then later on giving exercises for developing the chest, muscles and lungs which have been allowed to remain in an undeveloped condition by imperfect methods of breathing.
— from The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by William Walker Atkinson

He claimed that this was due to his having obeyed the laws of God, especially those contained in the Word of Wisdom.
— from A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Nephi Anderson

“Life of George Eliot,”— Mathilde Blind .
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

The champagne inclined him to various adventures; and he determined not to return home, but to go and see a certain well-known lady of German extraction, Karolina Ivanovna, a lady, it appears, with whom he was on a very friendly footing.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

[149] —as it was lovely: one gable end was, indeed, [Pg 361] most gorgeously apparelled in ivy, and so far picturesque; but the principal side, or what might be called front, as it presented itself to the road, and was most illuminated by windows, was embossed—nay, it might be said, smothered—in roses of different species, amongst which the moss and the damask prevailed.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

Verily, I read thy letter of graceful expressions and eloquent composition and was rejoiced in heart at the feelings sent forth from thy pure heart.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá