" According to this ancient Rite, the Apostles, and Presbyters, and the Presbytery it self, Laid Hands on them whom they ordained Pastors, and withall prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost; and that not only once, but sometimes oftner, when a new occasion was presented: but the end was still the same, namely a punctuall, and religious designation of the person, ordained either to the Pastorall Charge in general, or to a particular Mission:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Taine tells us in the first volume of his 'Intelligence' what the Ego is ,—a continuous web of conscious events no more really distinct from each other [281] than rhomboids, triangles, and squares marked with chalk on a plank are really distinct, for the plank itself is one.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The beginning of the year 1557, was remarkable for the visit of Cardinal Pole to the University of Cambridge, which seemed to stand in need of much cleansing from heretical preachers and reformed doctrines.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

CADENET, Parisian wine-merchant, in 1840, on the ground-floor of a furnished lodging-house, corner of rue des Postes and rue des Poules.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

166 the small pillow a richly decorated pillow which fashionable ladies used to prop them up in bed when they received morning visits from gentlemen.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Poetry and religion discerned life in those very places in which sense and understanding perceived body; and when so much of the burden of
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Phaerus Aegypti rex de caecitate oraculum consulens, visum ei rediturum accepit, si oculos abluisset lotio mulieris quae aliorum virorum esset expers; uxoris urinam expertus nihil profecit, et aliarum frustra, eas omnes (ea excepta per quam curatus fuit) unum in locum coactas concremavit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Little Owl makes a quaint pet, and thrives well in confinement; its antics and poses are really droll, and the big eyes look at you with a seeming deep intelligence.
— from Egyptian Birds For the most part seen in the Nile Valley by Charles Whymper

The base of each ray is rich red-brown, the colour encroaching on the disk with two points, and running down the medial line of the ray.
— from A Year at the Shore by Philip Henry Gosse

Wilfrid was perhaps incompetent to test the truth of this profound aphoristic remark, delivered with the simplicity of natural conviction.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

If they are comfortably housed and well fed, Pekin and Rouen Ducks usually begin to lay in January.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

But, even supposing that we could perform, far more completely than we do, the requirements of our own consciences, and conform to the evident duties of our position and relations, do you think that without faith we should be therein working the works of God?
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

Ketchup as ordinarily made from trimming stock should, therefore, be designated, so as to differentiate it from that made from sound fresh tomatoes, as the two products are radically different.
— from Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting

He came to her house too, and he told the girl he was looking for some ladies of the name of Gollagher or O'Rooney." She paused, and regarded Dr. Hickey.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

In the "Records of the Borough of Nottingham," [17] we find a John Shakespere plaintiff against Richard de Cotgrave, spicer, for deceit in sale of dye-wood on November 8, 31 Edward III.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

The porter, a long, lank, laughing creature, scion of the south and some porter, seeing an opportunity to draw attention, rushed up in a Shakesperian pose, and related dramatically, the incident of an intoxicated man, who, while crossing that very stream, fell, of a sudden, smack dab over-board, right into it.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux