I have seen in my travels almost all the famous baths of Christendom, and for some years past have begun to make use of them myself: for I look upon bathing as generally wholesome, and believe that we suffer no little inconveniences in our health by having left off the custom that was generally observed, in former times, almost by all nations, and is yet in many, of bathing every day; and I cannot imagine but that we are much the worse by, having our limbs crusted and our pores stopped with dirt.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

O Thou who man of baser earth didst make, And e’en in Paradise devised the Snake; For all the sin wherewith the face of man Is blackened, man’s forgiveness give—and take!
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give—and take! KUZA—NAMA.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd—Man's forgiveness give—and take!
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Persons with architectural experience and ability may often be employed directly to plan the house and to supervise its construction.
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

But I must have—forgotten him after a time, and the dark garden with the light on only one spot, and the roses smelling, and Latimer lying perfectly still, his face turned toward me, for I was reading—listen, I bet I can remember that part of it if I say it slow— Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
— from In the Bishop's Carriage by Miriam Michelson

In the case of a state which, like the Roman state of Caesar, already included a mass of barbaric elements difficult to be controlled, and had still for centuries to come more than enough to do with their assimilation, such conquests, even granting their military practicability, would have been nothing but blunders far more brilliant and far worse than the Indian expedition of Alexander.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Mr Oriel became engaged demurely, nay, almost silently, to Beatrice, and no one out of their own immediate families was at the time informed of the matter.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

The market of Bulawayo each day shows us English vegetables fresh from the garden.
— from Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradist devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd—Man's forgiveness give—and take!
— from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse by Omar Khayyam

Oh Thou, who Man of baser earth didst make, And e'en with Paradise devise the Snake, For all the Sin wherewith the face of Man Is blacken'd—Man's forgiveness give—and take, HENRY MORE, THE PLATONIST A BOUT the middle of the seventeenth century, Hobbes and Descartes, clear-headed and unprejudiced thinkers, caused a kind of panic in the devotional world: they resolved that they would not take anything for granted.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

82 Among the Rejangs of Sumatra the compensation for the murder of a superior chief is five hundred dollars, for that of an inferior chief two hundred and fifty dollars; for that of a common person, man or boy, eighty dollars; for that of a common person, woman or girl, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the legitimate child or wife of a superior chief, two hundred and fifty dollars.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

La constante calificación de cultura que ha servido de principal requisito al ejercicio del poder, ha impedido que éste caiga en manos mercenarias o bajo el dominio de inteligencias sin cultura que degradasen su función
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

They have been all hunting after the Llanerch MS. of Bonedd , even Dr. Thomas Williams, and the Anglesea Man, as well as Thomas Wynne, and Thomas ab Llewelyn, &c., and have stumbled in the reading of it, as now plainly appears to me; and what, if I tell you, that you and I also have slipped in one place: I am sure we have.
— from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evan Evans