A rational world must appear {xvi} congruous with our powers, 82 .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
CERFEUILLE Cereto de Tridino, printer, see Tacuinus CERVUS, stag, venison, ℞ 339-45 Cesena, a town in Italy where there is an Apicius Ms.; Apiciana XII CHAMAE, cockles Chamois, ℞ 346 seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
[ Voyage en Italie , par F. J. L. Meyer, An X. cap.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne
Graceful and stately as is many a XIV-century church, never in them do we find the unexpected entrancing touches of Apogee Gothic.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
There are also a considerable number of peculiar genera;— Petenia , Theraps , and Neotrophus (Chromides); Ælurichthys (Siluridæ); Chalcinopsis (Characniidæ); Characodon , Belonesox , Pseudoxiphophorus , Platypœcilus , Mollienesia , and Xiphophorus (Cyprinodontidæ).
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace
That's a copy I made myself, a Xerox copy [indicating].
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
For when Leonidas was slain at Thermopylai, Mardonios and Xerxes cut off his head and crucified him: to him therefore do thou repay like with like, and thou shalt have praise first from all the Spartans and then secondly from the other Hellenes also; for if thou impale the body of Mardonios, thou wilt then have taken vengeance for Leonidas thy father's brother.".
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus
We read also of Felicissima, QVAE VIXIT ANNVS LX · QVAE FECIT CVM VIRO SVO ANNVS XLV —“Who lived sixty years, who passed with her husband forty-five years;” and of Januaria, L · F · QVAE VIXIT PL · M · ANN · XXVIII · C · MARITV · FEC ANN XV · M · XI · D · X —“A praiseworthy woman, who lived twenty-eight years, more or less; she passed with her husband fifteen years, eleven months, ten days.”
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow
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