Always, when you think you have come to the end of her tremendous specialties and have finished hanging tags upon her as the Land of the Thug, the Land of the Plague, the Land of Famine, the Land of Giant Illusions, the Land of Stupendous Mountains, and so forth, another specialty crops up and another tag is required.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

On the other hand, in the district of Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, when a farmer is later of getting in his harvest than his neighbours, they set up on his land a Straw-bull, as it is called.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

A LONG OPEN GALLERY IN THE SAME.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I know a man must have the love o' God in his soul, and the Bible's God's word.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

[4603] The love of God begets the love of man; and by this love of our neighbour, the love of God is nourished and increased.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The common life of Greece is not enough for them; they must penetrate deeper into the nature of things.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

This was an action against the master of a ship lying in the river Thames, for the loss of goods intrusted to him.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Or it may be left together with the finer mud in a lake, as in the lake of Geneva, into which the Rhone flows laden with mud and comes out at the other end clear and pure.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

To preach the love of God out of relation to the death of Christ, or to preach the love of God in the death of Christ, but without being able to relate it to sin, or to preach that forgiveness of sins as the free gift of God's love while the death of Christ has no special significance assigned to it, is not, if the New Testament is the rule and standard of Christianity, to preach the gospel at all."— Denny, in "The Death of Christ."
— from God's Plan with Men by T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

“Huh! A lot of good it would do.
— from Aces Up by Covington Clarke

"Thus it is necessary to inscribe the name of Sir George Cayley in letters of gold, in the first page of the aeroplane's history.
— from The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton

You have both in that word darkness and deadness want of that shining light of God in the mind, so that it cannot discern spiritual things that make to our eternal peace.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Geriones. sundrie other ouercome the Lomnimi or Geriones in Spaine, and vnderstanding that Lestrigo and his sonnes did yet remaine in Italie, he directed his viage into those parts, and taking the kingdome of the Celts in his waie, he remained for a season with Lucus the king of that countrie, where he also maried his daughter Galathea, and begat a sonne Galathea.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

If the salmon is (as it appears to be in its young state) a species of fresh-water trout {293} that has contracted the habit of annually migrating to the sea, where it finds a food on which it thrives—if the original size of this species was not much greater than that of the parr (which is nearly as large as some varieties of trout)—and if the limit of growth in the trout tribe is very indefinite, as we know it to be; then we may reasonably infer that the parr has nearly the adult form and size which this species of trout had before it acquired its migratory habit; and that this production of milt is, in such case, a concomitant of the incipient decline of growth naturally arising in the species when living under the conditions of the ancestral species.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

It is certainly here said: “What the scholastic writers teach concerning the love of God is a dream, and it is impossible to know and love God before we know and lay hold on mercy through faith.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

Love of God is a distinct and definite feeling, and every person knows whether he ever experienced it.
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

The following extracts from the "Red Catechism" serve to show how "love of goodness" is inculcated in the Socialist Sunday Schools: " Q. Is there any difference in the teachings at Socialist Sunday schools and other Sunday schools?
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker