Pelosine or buxine is precipitated by a concentrated solution of HCl, by sal ammoniac, by potassium nitrate and potassium iodide.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

"But I suppose there must be something done for poor—" "Not at present, I think.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

By the kindness of Mr. John Murray, two plans (Dyrrachium and Pharsalus), not at present included in the Atlas, have been specially drawn to illustrate passages on pp.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Even if life could achieve nothing more than this, it would have reached something profoundly natural and perfectly ideal.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In the HTML version of this book, page numbers are placed in the left margin.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Each normal individual retains its various physiological and psychological needs and powers intact, not necessarily sacrificing any of them for the good of the community.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Specialists participate notably and productively in our common life, but this is evidently not on the basis of personal association with their neighbors.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[118] (ut superioris filius Africani, qui hunc Paulo natum adoptavit, propter infirmitatem valetudinis non tam potuit patris similis esse, quam ille fuerat sui); si igitur non poterit sive causas defensitare sive populum contionibus tenere sive bella gerere, illa tamen praestare debebit, quae erunt in ipsius potestate, iustitiam, fidem, liberalitatem, modestiam, temperantiam, quo minus ab eo id, quod desit, requiratur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And then he blames Pittacus, not, as Protagoras imagines, for repeating that which he says himself, but for saying something different from himself.
— from Protagoras by Plato

We have already seen how busily Aguinaldo occupied himself during the protracted peace negotiations at Paris in getting his government and people ready for the struggle for independence which he early and shrewdly guessed would be ultimately forthcoming.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

A few years later was commenced the once celebrated abbey of Pontigny, near Auxerre, probably in 1150, and completed, as we now find it, within 15 or 20 years from that date.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Name and deed alike are lost: Not a pillar nor a post In his Croisic keeps alive the feat as it befell; Not a head in white and black 130 On a single fishing smack, In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell.
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

FOOTNOTES: [18] This explains why "every one" cannot move the board; there must be this peculiar nervous and psychic instability in order to insure the results.
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington

Therefore, links to the image captions, rather than the page numbers, are provided in the table below.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

Finally, having become much reduced by an infirmity, and being poor, neglected, and paralysed in the legs, so that he could do nothing to better himself, Jacone died in misery in a little hovel that he had on a mean street, or rather, alley, called Codarimessa, in the year 1553.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

“There is in it just the desired touch of historical reminiscence, with never a line of pedantry, nor a phrase in doubtful taste....
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

Proportional Representation is not a faddist proposal, not a perplexing ingenious complication of a simple business; it is the carefully worked out right way to do something that hitherto we have been doing in the wrong way.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The requirements of a decent, healthy, harmonious individual or civic life played no appreciable part in the rapid transformation of the mediæval residential centre, or the scattered industrial village into the modern manufacturing town.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

“I am 50 neither a plaster nor a poultice,” I replied to myself, for I would not be too cross to them—and beyond a little peep at him, every afternoon, I kept out of the sight of Captain Purvis.
— from Tales from the Telling-House by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore