The physicians of Constantinople were zealous and skilful; but their art was baffled by the various symptoms and pertinacious vehemence of the disease: the same remedies were productive of contrary effects, and the event capriciously disappointed their prognostics of death or recovery.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

162 , 163 , 165 , 176 ; and Duty, Plato’s view of relation between, 171-172 ; and Virtue, 174-175 , 459 ; and Virtue, connexion of, in Aristotle’s view, 121-122 ; determination and measurement of, an inevitable problem for Ethics, 176 ; production of, 176-177 ; relation of, to mental concentration and dissipation, 193 ; and Self-development, 192-193 ; rejection of, as end, leaves us unable to frame a coherent account of Ultimate Good, 406 ; an objection to, as Ultimate Good, considered, 407 note 1; principle of distribution of, required, 416 , 417 ; universal, as divine end, 503-505 ; Christian view of, 120 , 138 ; Sources of, 151 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I have never met a pigeon, or poultry, or duck, or rabbit fancier, who was not fully convinced that each main breed was descended from a distinct species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Such a Writer, I doubt not, was the celebrated Petronius , who invented the pleasant Aggravations of the Frailty of the Ephesian Lady; but when we consider this Question between the Sexes, which has been either a Point of Dispute or Raillery ever since there were Men and Women, let us take Facts from plain People, and from such as have not either Ambition or Capacity to embellish their Narrations with any Beauties of Imagination.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man; Picks from each sex, to make the fav’rite blest, Your love of pleasure, or desire of rest: Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your taste of follies, with our scorn of fools: Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride; Fixed principles, with fancy ever new; Shakes all together, and produces—You.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

In the fire he burns various kinds of wood, which are supposed to possess the property of driving off rain; and he puffs in the direction from which the rain threatens to come, holding in his hand a packet of leaves and bark which derive a similar cloud-compelling virtue, not from their chemical composition, but from their names, which happen to signify something dry or volatile.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Among the Oloh Ngadju of Borneo, when a sick man is supposed to be suffering from the assaults of a ghost, puppets of dough or rice-meal are made and thrown under the house as substitutes for the patient, who thus rids himself of the ghost.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The details of their office and the privileges which they are to enjoy are rarely defined beforehand; but the majority treats them as a master does his servants when they are always at work in his sight, and he has the power of directing or reprimanding them at every instant.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

91 The physicians of Constantinople were zealous and skilful; but their art was baffled by the various symptoms and pertinacious vehemence of the disease: the same remedies were productive of contrary effects, and the event capriciously disappointed their prognostics of death or recovery.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sir John Lubbock, whose observations on ants, bees, and wasps are so interesting and so personal, is reluctant to credit the bee, from the moment it forsakes the routine of its habitual labour, with any power of discernment or reasoning.
— from The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck

But we have vast resources of people in the Government who are, or who do have security as a main business, and it seems to me that it is vitally important that those people and those vast resources somehow tie into the administrative process of denying or refusing passports under unique circumstances.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

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"In 1810, Professor Shurtleff was united in marriage with Miss Anna Pope, only daughter of Rev. Joseph Pope of [236] Spencer, Mass.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

You will announce to the people of Damascus, or rather to all Mussulmans, that God has enabled us to gain a complete victory over the Christians, at the moment they were conspiring to effect our ruin.”
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

While some parts were laboring under the paroxysm of delusion, others retained their senses, and time was thus given to the affected parts to recover their health.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

[Pg 377] Persecution under Papacy, 149 -153 Persecutions, papal, "Western Watchman" on, 151 Persia, rise and fall of, 322 -324 Phalerius, king urged by, to secure Jewish sacred books, 187 , 188 Pierson, Dr., on open doors for gospel, 310 "Plain Talks," on Sunday observance, 251 Pleasure, passion for, M. Comte on, 109 Pleasure, passion for, sign of Christ's coming, 109 Plutarch, on Alexander, 45 Plutarch, on Alexander's conquests, 121 , 122 Political unrest, 106 , 107 Polybius, on dominion of Rome,
— from Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer

It has been previously shown that an impacted colon is neither more nor less than a prolific hot-bed for the wholesale breeding of disease germs—microbes—those infinitesimal organisms which science has demonstrated to be the cause of many phases of disease, or rather, the toxins (poisons) they produce, cause disease.
— from The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs by Chas. A. (Charles Alfred) Tyrrell