The Power Of Casting Out Devills, Not The Same It Was In The Primitive Church Neverthelesse, the contrary Doctrine, namely, that there be Incorporeall Spirits, hath hitherto so prevailed in the Church, that the use of Exorcisme, (that is to say, of ejection of Devills by Conjuration) is thereupon built; and (though rarely and faintly practised) is not yet totally given over.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

While lying in this state one day, Bob came in, saying to Dr. Carr that Freeman had sent him over to inquire how we were getting on.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Isolation of deduction by commencing with it ( iii ) Beginning with definitions, rules, general principles, classifications, and the like, is a common form of the first error.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

'Tis a sad truth: The Pulpit may her plaine, And sober Christian precepts still retaine, Doctrines it may, and wholesome Uses frame, Grave Homilies, and Lectures, But the flame 15 Of thy brave Soule, that shot such heat and light, As burnt our earth, and made our darknesse bright, Committed holy Rapes upon our Will, Did through the eye the melting heart distill; And the deepe knowledge of darke truths so teach, 20 As sense might judge, what phansie could not reach; Must be desir'd for ever.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

These are [ 32 ] not genuine demons or devils, but carefully caricatured deities.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He bled her, and he told me to let her live on whey and water-gruel, and take care she did not throw herself downstairs or out of the window; and then he left: for he had enough to do in the parish, where two or three miles was the ordinary distance between cottage and cottage.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

7. Now here one may wonder at the ill-will which men bear to us, and which they profess to bear on account of our despising that Deity which they pretend to honor; for if any one do but consider the fabric of the tabernacle, and take a view of the garments of the high priest, and of those vessels which we make use of in our sacred ministration, he will find that our legislator was a divine man, and that we are unjustly reproached by others; for if any one do without prejudice, and with judgment, look upon these things, he will find they were every one made in way of imitation and representation of the universe.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

House, origin of, 38 f. ; early types of, 39 f. ; style of, determined by climate, 170 f. Hypaethral temple, 14, 75, 78.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In Pall Mall and May Fair these personages are spoken of in exactly the same manner at the present day, whilst in the City, and amongst the middle classes, we only hear of Derby, Berkeley, &c.,—the correct pronunciations, if the spelling is worth aught.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

By the time they become expert—heads of departments, buyers, chief milliners, etc.,—they are of course more than economically independent.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Plans of Defence of the Spanish Juntas—defeated by the ardour of the Insurrectionary Armies—Cruelty of the French Troops, and Inveteracy of the Spaniards—Successes of the Invaders—Defeat of Rio Secco—Exultation of Napoleon—Joseph enters Madrid—His reception—Duhesme compelled to retreat to Barcelona, and Moncey from before Valencia—Defeat of Dupont by Castanos at Baylen—His Army surrenders Prisoners of War—Effects of this Victory and Capitulation—Unreasonable Expectations of the British Public—Joseph leaves Madrid, and retires to Vittoria—Defence of Zaragossa.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

However, his sister, the Duchess of Alençon, entreated that the Proctor’s life might be spared, and the sentence of death be commuted to some heavy punishment.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

And out she went, threatening all sorts of destruction, but curiously missing whatever lay in her road.
— from The Deep Sea's Toll by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

"Oh, Dick, be careful!" cried Mrs. Stanhope, and sprang up in the tonneau of the car in alarm, quickly followed by Mrs. Laning.
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer

"Oh, do be careful," she protested.
— from His Lordship's Leopard: A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells

This is a sort of dirty brown colour outside, pure [89] white inside.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

And in this wise to trample on the frightful thought of annihilation, to escape the horror of the disappearance of the /ego/, and to tranquillise oneself with that unshakable faith which postpones until the portal of death be crossed the solution of all the problems of destiny!
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 by Émile Zola

"Oh, do be careful!" cautioned Betty, but Mollie was already in the water.
— from The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake; Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope

Whenever a trader arrives, he is required to bring his merchandize into this space, for the inspection of the king, for the purpose of duties being charged upon it.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish