But with the profit of our adaptability we are in danger of losing the underlying sense of purpose that inspires and continues to justify measures, and to lose also a certain intimate intercourse with problems of theory and philosophy which is one of the requisites of a professional equipment {x} and one nowhere better appreciated than in countries loyal to Teutonic ideals of culture.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

In a note to the passage Ezek. xliii. 2, "the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East," Adam Clarke says, "All knowledge, all religion, and all arts and sciences, have travelled, according to the course of the sun , FROM EAST TO WEST!"
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

THE SALARY YOU DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY ENVELOPE XLIII. EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF YOURSELF XLIV.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

PICKLED PORK PORCELLU EXOZOME XXV .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

With such doth he heal men, and take away their pains, Ecclus. xxxviii.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And for the same reason he steals a march on his audience, adding immediately: “All of whom, Aeschines,—not those who were successful only,—were buried by the state at the public expense.” XVII There is one truth which my studies have led me to observe, which perhaps it would be worth while to set down briefly here.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Tells Me Her Story XVI We Plan Escape XVII A Costly Recapture XVIII Chained in Warhoon XIX Battling in the Arena XX In the Atmosphere Factory XXI An Air Scout for Zodanga XXII I Find Dejah XXIII Lost in the Sky XXIV Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend XXV The Looting of Zodanga XXVI Through Carnage to Joy XXVII From Joy to Death XXVIII
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The good law, evil precepts, Ezekiel xx.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

Pœnitentiale Egberti , xi. 3 (Wasserschleben, p. 242).
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

( Ad Paulinum , Ep. xxix.)
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Dreed , pp. endured, XVII 533.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

See larger image Pluvial, English, XIII.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

What was left unaccomplished by the centurions of literature came ultimately from the strangest of all possible quarters; from the study of an humble pupil of the transmuter of metals and prince of mountebanks and quacks—the expounder of Reuchlin de verbo mirifico , and lecturer in the unknown tongues—the follower of Trismegistus—cursed with bell, book and candle, by every decorous Church in Christendom—the redoubted Cornelius Agrippa; who, if he left not to his pupil Wierus the secret of the philosopher's stone or grand elixir, seems to have communicated a treasure perhaps equally [xi] rare and not less precious, the faculty of seeing a truth which should open the eyes of bigotry and dispel the mists of superstition, which should stop the persecution of the helpless and stay the call for blood.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

At the time of the exodus we are told that he was “very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people” (Ex. xi. 3).
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

[Pg 416] Ignorance: Genteel ( Essay XVIII. ), 253-263 ; among French royalists, 254 , 255 ; in religion, 256 , 257 ; in regard to pecuniary conditions, 258 , 259 ; of likeness and unlikeness, 260 , 261 ; disadvantages, 262 ; drives people from society, 263 ; Patriotic ( Essay XIX. ), 264-279 ; a narrow satisfaction, 264 ; French ignorance of English art, 265 , 267 ; of English game, 268 ; of English fruit, 269 ; English errors as to mountains, 270 , 271 ; fuel, manly vigor, 272 , 273 ; word universal , 274 ; universities, 275 , 276 ; literature, 277 ; leads to war, 277 , 278 ; not the best patriotism, 279 ; unavoidable, 301 ; contented, 302 ; of gentlewomen, 381 , 382 .
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton