—Common in many parts of Luzon, in Mindanao, Cebú and Paragua. Pedaliaceæ.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

God grants me cold according to my cloth, and passions proportionable to the means I have to withstand them: nature having laid me open on the one side, has covered me on the other; having disarmed me of strength, she has armed me with insensibility and an apprehension that is regular, or, if you will, dull.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At one time he called them "la nation la plus civilisée et la plus puissante du monde entier"—the most civilised and powerful people on the face of the earth; at another they were only "les premiers hommes pour le steam-engine"; and then, he merely felt a sorrowful affection for them—as for a people who just missed getting the profit of their good qualities by shutting their eyes to their bad.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Upon the arrival of the steamer in Barcelona the prisoner Page 232 was transferred to Montjuich Castle, a political prison associated with many cruelties, there to await the sailing that very day of the Philippine mail boat.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

There by thyself to put these questions to thyself or to enter in these considerations: What is my chief and principal part, which hath power over the rest?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Absence a cure of love-melancholy Absence over long, cause of jealousy Abstinence commended Academicorum Errata Adversity, why better than prosperity Aerial devils Affections whence they arise; how they transform us; of sleeping and waking Affection in melancholy, what Against abuses, repulse, injuries, contumely, disgraces, scoffs Against envy, livor, hatred, malice Against sorrow, vain fears, death of friends Air, how it causeth melancholy; how rectified it cureth melancholy; air in love Alkermes good against melancholy All are melancholy All beautiful parts attractive in love Aloes, his virtues Alteratives in physic, to what use; against melancholy Ambition defined, described, cause of melancholy; of heresy; hinders and spoils many matches Amiableness loves object Amorous objects causes of love-melancholy Amulets controverted, approved Amusements Anger's description, effects, how it causeth melancholy Antimony a purger of melancholy Anthony inveigled by Cleopatra Apology of love-melancholy Appetite Apples, good or bad, how Apparel and clothes, a cause of love-melancholy Aqueducts of old Arminian's tenets Arteries, what Artificial air against melancholy Artificial allurements of love Art of memory Astrological aphorisms, how available, signs or causes of melancholy Astrological signs of love Atheists described Averters of melancholy Aurum potabile censured, approved B. Baits of lovers Bald lascivious Balm good against melancholy Banishment's effects; its cure and antidote Barrenness, what grievances it causeth; a cause of jealousy Barren grounds have best air Bashfulness a symptom of melancholy; of love-melancholy; cured Baseness of birth no disparagement Baths rectified Bawds a cause of love-melancholy Beasts and birds in love Beauty's definition; described; in parts; commendation; attractive power, prerogatives, excellency, how it causeth melancholy; makes grievous wounds, irresistible; more beholding to art than nature; brittle and uncertain; censured; a cause of jealousy; beauty of God Beef a melancholy meat Beer censured Best site of a house Bezoar's stone good against melancholy Black eyes best Black spots in the nails signs of melancholy Black man a pearl in a woman's eye Blasphemy, how pardonable Blindness of lovers Bloodletting, when and how cure of melancholy; time and quantity Bloodletting and purging, how causes of melancholy Blow on the head cause of melancholy Body, how it works on the mind Body melancholy, its causes Bodily symptoms of melancholy; of love-melancholy Bodily exercises Books of all sorts Borage and bugloss, sovereign herbs against melancholy; their wines and juice most excellent Boring of the head, a cure for melancholy Brain distempered, how cause of melancholy; his parts anatomised Bread and beer, how causes of melancholy Brow and forehead, which are most pleasing Brute beasts jealous Business the best cure of love-melancholy C. Cardan's father conjured up seven devils at once; had a spirit bound to him Cards and dice censured, approved Care's effects Carp fish's nature Cataplasms and cerates for melancholy Cause of diseases Causes immediate of melancholy symptoms Causes of honest love; of heroical love; of jealousy Cautions against jealousy Centaury good against melancholy Charles the Great enforced to love basely by a philter Change of countenance, sign of love-melancholy Charity described; defects of it Character of a covetous man Charles the Sixth, king of France, mad for anger Chemical physic censured Chess-play censured Chiromantical signs of melancholy Chirurgical remedies of melancholy Choleric melancholy signs Chorus sancti Viti, a disease Circumstances increasing jealousy Cities' recreations Civil lawyers' miseries Climes and particular places, how causes of love-melancholy Clothes a mere cause of good respect Clothes causes of love-melancholy Clysters good for melancholy Coffee, a Turkey cordial drink Cold air cause of melancholy Comets above the moon Compound alteratives censured, approved; compound purgers of melancholy; compound wines for melancholy Community of wives a cure of jealousy Compliment and good carriage causes of love-melancholy Confections and conserves against melancholy Confession of his grief to a friend, a principal cure of melancholy Confidence in his physician half a cure Conjugal love best Conscience what it is Conscience troubled, a cause of despair Continual cogitation of his mistress a symptom of love-melancholy Contention, brawling, lawsuits, effects Continent or inward causes of melancholy Content above all, whence to be had Contention's cure Cookery taxed Copernicus, his hypothesis of the earth's motion Correctors of accidents in melancholy Correctors to expel windiness, and costiveness helped Cordials against melancholy Costiveness to some a cause of melancholy Costiveness helped Covetousness defined, described, how it causeth melancholy Counsel against melancholy; cure of jealousy; of despair Country recreations Crocodiles jealous Cuckolds common in all ages Cupping-glasses, cauteries how and when used to melancholy Cure of melancholy, unlawful, rejected; from God; of head-melancholy; over all the body; of hypochondriacal melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy; of despair Cure of melancholy in himself; or friends Curiosity described, his effects Custom of diet, delight of appetite, how to be kept and yielded to D. Dancing, masking, mumming, censured, approved; their effects, how they cause love-melancholy; how symptoms of lovers Death foretold by spirits Death of friends cause of melancholy; other effects; how cured; death advantageous Deformity of body no misery Delirium Despair, equivocations; causes; symptoms; prognostics; cure Devils, how they cause melancholy; their, beginning, nature, conditions; feel pain, swift in motion, mortal; their orders; power; how they cause religious melancholy; how despair; devils are often in love; shall be saved, as some hold Diet
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Before the always-wind-obeying deep Gave any tragic instance of our harm: But longer did we not retain much hope, For what obscured light the heavens did grant Did but convey unto our fearful minds A doubtful warrant of immediate death; Which though myself would gladly have embrac'd, Yet the incessant weepings of my wife, Weeping before for what she saw must come, And piteous plainings of the pretty babes, That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear, Forc'd me to seek delays for them and me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

V. be dear &c. adj.; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But they will have it thus nevertheless, and so they put note of [324] divinity upon the most cruel and pernicious plague of human kind, adore such men with grand titles, degrees, statues, images,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Another advised me, for want of money, to set up my coach and practise physic, but having been bred a scholar, I feared I should not succeed that way neither; therefore resolved to go on in my present project.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir

Perhaps the most important of these was in the act passed in 1824 to have surveys made of such roads and canals as in the opinion of the President were of value for military, commercial and postal purposes.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

I really shall feel anxious if she does not have a tonic of some sort,” said Aunt Plenty, eyeing the new remedies suspiciously, for she had more faith in her old-fashioned doses than all the magic cups and poppy pillows of the East.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

"Reconciliation" in the New Testament sense is not something which we accomplish when we lay aside our enmity to God; it is something which God accomplished when in the death of Christ He put away everything that on His side meant estrangement, so that He might come and preach peace.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

At the present moment the Crown is the only formal link between the many colonies and possessions Pg 756 over which the Union Jack floats.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

They are endowed with marked chemical and physiological properties, causing a rise of temperature when injected into the blood, as well as other phenomena more or less pronounced.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

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— from Luca Signorelli by Maud Cruttwell

307 At the end of our morphological classification a problem presents itself, which we might have declined to enter upon if we had confined ourselves to a genealogical classification.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

And all were pushed, squeezed, piled up by chance as they came, women, men, children, and priests, people in nightgowns beside people who were fully attired being jumbled together in the blinding light of day.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 by Émile Zola