de Mar Jabalaha III. , Paris, 1895, and preferably in Prince Roland Bonaparte's beautiful Documents Mongols , Pl.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In its strictures on pleasure and reverie this Philistia is perfectly right.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In its purely pagan conception of the world, it suggests, by contrast, Milton's Christian philosophy in Paradise Regained .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Facciolatus thus defines the Phallus: "penis ligneus, vel vitreus, vel coriaceus, quem in Bacchi festis plaustro impositum per rura et urbes magno honore circumferebant.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In what propositions is pure reason unavoidably subject to an antinomy?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Yes, Captain Cook found it necessary to defend Bering against the only official report of the expedition which at that time had appeared, and more than once he puts in proper relief Bering's sober investigations, as compared with Müller's fancies and guesses.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The winter sun, making its way through the snow and the frozen tracery on the window-panes, gleamed on the samovar, and plunged its pure rays in the tea-basin.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Morn dawns; and with it stern Albania's hills, Dark Suli's rocks, and Pindus' inland peak, Robed half in mist, bedewed with snowy rills, Arrayed in many a dun and purple streak, Arise; and, as the clouds along them break, Disclose the dwelling of the mountaineer; Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak, Birds, beasts of prey, and wilder men appear, And gathering storms around convulse the closing year.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The Romans borrowed from all, besides their own gods, which were majorum and minorum gentium , as Varro holds, certain and uncertain; some celestial, select, and great ones, others indigenous and Semi-dei, Lares, Lemures, Dioscuri, Soteres, and Parastatae, dii tutelares amongst the Greeks: gods of all sorts, for all functions; some for the land, some for sea; some for heaven, some for hell; some for passions, diseases, some for birth, some for weddings, husbandry, woods, waters, gardens, orchards, &c. All actions and offices, Pax-Quies, Salus, Libertas, Felicitas, Strenua, Stimula, Horta, Pan, Sylvanus, Priapus, Flora, Cloacina, Stercutius, Febris, Pallor, Invidia, Protervia, Risus, Angerona, Volupia, Vacuna, Viriplaca, Veneranda, Pales, Neptunia, Doris, kings, emperors, valiant men that had done any good offices for them, they did likewise canonise and adore for gods, and it was usually done, usitatum apud antiquos , as [6507]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The grain was sown, and the kitchen garden planted in precise rows and nicely shaped beds.
— from The Land of Lure: A Story of the Columbia River Basin by Elliott Smith

It was a grove of orange and lemon trees, planted in parallel rows, and so thickly as to form an intricate green roof, under which one enjoyed the coolness, shade, and perfume of paradise.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

Mr. Semrow, as one of the representative young business men, has gained a prominent position in public regard, for he has come to be recognized as one who is thoroughly reliable as well as progressive and one whose word is as trustworthy as any contract.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

In front of the fountain and of the steps, beyond a belt of greensward, were long hedges planted in parallel rows, and connected in arches and arcades, crossing and re-crossing each other in an intricate maze, so that a large company, wandering through their paths, might suddenly appear and [103] disappear.
— from The Little Schoolmaster Mark: A Spiritual Romance by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Shorthouse

Many acts had been passed in previous reigns to improve the disgraceful state of the prisons in this country, but it was left to a band of workers, mostly Quakers, led by Elizabeth Fry, to bring about any real improvement.
— from Queen Victoria by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne

This well secured bottom, or floor, appears to have been placed in position, rather to keep the hot water from ascending into the bath from the springs beneath than to make the bath water-tight.
— from The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath by Charles Edward Davis

what are the outstanding “cultural areas” and what are the dominant ideas in each (e.g., the Mohammedan north of Africa; the primitive hunting, non-agricultural culture of the Bushmen in the south; the culture of the Australian natives, poor in physical respects but richly developed in ceremonialism; the more advanced and highly specialized culture of Polynesia)?
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

To come down to the bedrock, it's just this: Tennessee, thar, has played it pretty rough and expensive-like on a stranger, and on this yer camp.
— from Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte