For the friend is best pleased with loving and being beloved by many, and also always tries to contrive for his friend that he too may be much loved and honoured, for he believes in the proverb "the goods of friends are common property," 440 and thinks it ought to apply to nothing more than to friends; but the false and spurious and counterfeit friend, knowing how much he debases friendship, like debased and spurious coin, is not only by nature envious, but shows his envy even of those who are like himself, striving to outdo them in scurrility and gossip, while he quakes and trembles at any of his betters, not by Zeus "merely walking on foot by their Lydian chariot," but, to use the language of Simonides, "not even, having pure lead by 184 comparison with their refined gold."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

And if more than half of the kindred male and female, being of full age, condemn the son, let him be disinherited.
— from Laws by Plato

How a prop of the church on which Bishop Aidan was leaning when he died, could not be consumed when the rest of the Church was on fire; and concerning his inward life.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

58 Haywood, John , on Shawano wars 371 , 372 , 494 Haywood, John on Shining rock and Track Rock gap 480 Haywood, John on surrender of Port Loudon 44 Haywood, John on Tennessee Assembly’s memorial (1794) 76 Headdress , Cherokee 474 Hearing , pleasures of lxx–lxxiv Heckewelder, John , on Cherokee migrations 191 Heckewelder, John on Delaware-Cherokee relations 373 , 378 , 379 , 494 Heckewelder, John on Delaware regard for snakes 458 Heckewelder, John on Delaware traditions concerning Cherokee 18 Heckewelder, John on expression “a night’s encampment” 20 Heckewelder, John on Indian attitude toward bear 448 Heckewelder, John on Indian ideas about animals 445 Heckewelder, John on name Tallege′wi 184 Heckewelder, John on Shawano 495 Hell , development of concept of lxxxv Hemp-carrier , legend of 364 , 367 , 491 Henderson purchase from Cherokee 45 Henry on Indian attitude toward bears 446 – 447 Henry on Ojibwa myths 445 Henry on Ojibwa regard for snakes 457 – 458 Herbert’s spring , legend of 403 – 404 , 505 Heron on Cherokee myths 284 , 285 Heroism , legends of 394 – 395 , 501 Herring, Elbert , on assassination of John Walker 121 Hester, J. G. , East Cherokee census by 176 Hewat on agreement of South Carolina with Cherokee 32 Hewat on Cherokee land cessions 34 Hewat on Cherokee relations with Tuscarora 32 Hewat on Cherokee war of 1760–61 45 Hewat on first Cherokee war with colonies 33 Hewat on surrender of Fort Loudon 43 , 44 Hewitt, J. N. B. , on Cherokee linguistic relationship 16 Hewitt, J. N. B. on Iroquois myths 433 , 440 , 451 Hewitt, J. N. B. on Mohawk language 188 Hewitt, J. N. B. on Mohawk name for Cherokee 16 Hewitt, J. N. B. on name Hiadeoni 489 Hewitt, J. N. B. , study of fraternities and cults by xlviii Hewitt, J. N. B. , work of xviii, xxv–xxvi Heyowani in Texas, union of, with Cherokee.143 Hiadeoni , legend of 356 , 489 Hichitee , deer songs of 435 Hichitee , migration of, to Florida 99 Hichitee , tribe of Creek confederacy 498 – 499 Hickorynut gap , myth connected with 438 Hicks, C. R. , election of, as chief 112 Hicks, C. R. , endeavor to introduce coffee by 214 Hicks, C. R. on moon myths 441 Hicks, Elijah , letter to Secretary of War by 115 Hightower , establishment of mission at 105 Hillabee , capture of 91 Hindu myths 431 Hinman, S. D. , on Sioux myths 450 Historical traditions , Cherokee 232 , 350 – 397 History of Cherokee 14 – 228 Histrionic art , development of lxxix–lxxxi Hiwassee , pseudomyth concerning 416 Hiwassee towns , burning of (1788) 65 Hiwassee towns , hostility of (1786) 63 Hobbs, B. C. , contract for schools among East Cherokee brought about by 176 Hobbs, B. C. , on East Cherokee schools 176 Hodge, F. W. , work of xiii, xv, xxix–xxx, xxxi, xxxii Hog , Cherokee name for 215 Hog , raising of, by Cherokee 82 , 112 Hog-sucker in Cherokee myth 308 Holbrook, J. E. , on Pleistodon 463 Holmes, J. L. , on Chief N. J. Smith 178 Holmes, J. L. on Cherokee missions 84 Holston , supplement to treaty of 77 Holston , treaty of (1791) 69 , 214 Holy Ground , battle of 92 , 217 , 502 Honduras , memoir on mounds in xli–xlii Honey , see Bees .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Then we would make up the rest of the standing army out of commonplace materials, and officer it with nobodies, as was proper—nobodies selected on a basis of mere efficiency—and we would make this regiment toe the line, allow it no aristocratic freedom from restraint, and force it to do all the work and persistent hammering, to the end that whenever the King’s Own was tired and wanted to go off for a change and rummage around amongst ogres and have a good time, it could go without uneasiness, knowing that matters were in safe hands behind it, and business going to be continued at the old stand, same as usual.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

I was terribly afraid, from what I had heard of Blackwater Park, of fatiguing antique chairs, and dismal stained glass, and musty, frouzy hangings, and all the barbarous lumber which people born without a sense of comfort accumulate about them, in defiance of the consideration due to the convenience of their friends.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

This went on for a couple of weeks or more, and the opinion that whatever was mysterious in this affair would turn out to be tragic as well, began to prevail, when one fine morning, as I was standing in the shade by the steps of the harbour office, I perceived four men walking towards me along the quay.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

But when his son Manasseh, whose mother's name was Hephzibah, of Jerusalem, had taken the kingdom, he departed from the conduct of his father, and fell into a course of life quite contrary thereto, and showed himself in his manners most wicked in all respects, and omitted no sort of impiety, but imitated those transgressions of the Israelites, by the commission of which against God they had been destroyed; for he was so hardy as to defile the temple of God, and the city, and the whole country; for, by setting out from a contempt of God, he barbarously slew all the righteous men that were among the Hebrews; nor would he spare the prophets, for he every day slew some of them, till Jerusalem was overflown with blood.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"It is true, indeed, that idolatry is capable of furnishing a curb against irregularity of manners; but this author has conjectured, without foundation, that atheism reigned universally before the deluge.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

All South America delights in the peculiar aroma of the strengthening but, on first acquaintance, certainly unpleasant maté .
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau

If the rails be connected by a wire, and the slider be moved so as to cut across the lines of force, a current will be produced in the circuit.
— from Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

One by one its miracles are unfolded to him; miracles of fire and cold, and pain and pleasure; the seizure of love, the terrible magic of reproduction, the sad miracle of death.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 by Filson Young

Saxe has a hundred pieces of cannon [say the English, which is correct], consummately disposed along this space; no ingress possible anywhere, except through the cannon's throat; torrents of fire and cross-fire playing on you.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

Not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest lessons.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And the army of the defence was only composed of the Thirteenth Corps, which General Vinoy had saved and brought back to the capital, and the Fourteenth, still in progress of formation, and confided to General Ducrot—the pair of them comprising some eighty thousand soldiers, besides whom there were fourteen thousand sailors, naval gunners, and marines, fifteen thousand men belonging to various volunteer corps, and one hundred and fifteen thousand Mobile Guards, in addition to three hundred thousand National Guards apportioned among the nine sections of the ramparts.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

I allow it was acting rather foolishly to go and thus expose ourselves, in the midst of a colony of ferocious and cruel men whose language we did not know; but I relied upon my usual good fortune.
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

Our government has generally assumed an attitude of indifference to matters of form and ceremony—an independence which has cost it no little prestige, and its diplomats a great deal of annoyance.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

It was a cold evening, and whenever a girl entered from the hall a breath of frosty air came with her, and most of those gathered in the room were likely to look up and shiver.
— from Ruth Fielding At College; or, The Missing Examination Papers by Alice B. Emerson