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A still more important passage occurs in Dekker’s If this be not a good Play , a partial source of Jonson’s drama: Scu.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
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— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
He descended from his seat, placed his body on the spikes, and commanded the driver, on pain of instant death, to propel the elephant against him.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale’s direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
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— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
The interesting part of Ben Lomond, as he had experienced it, the part operative in determining the train of his ideas was the complex image of a particular man.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
Heraclitus remains the honest prophet of immediacy: a mystic without raptures or bad rhetoric, a sceptic who does not rely for his results on conventions unwittingly adopted, a transcendentalist without false pretensions or incongruous dogmas.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
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— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton
8:11,12] yea, all the profits lament that the people of Israel divided themselves into as many sects as there were cities in the land; each desiring to outdo the others.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther
In this event the polyp retracts its tentacles until they become mere prominences on its disk, and shrinks greatly in size.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
The stench of this habitation was abominable; the seeming poverty of it, diseased and dire.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
8., indeed says, that the Spartan constitution was oligarchical, because a few persons had, as judges, the power of inflicting death or banishment ; yet in this passage also banishment may be considered as a means of escaping from the penalty of death before the final passing of the sentence; for Aristotle's only purpose is to show that the decision of a few persons could deprive a citizen of life, or force him to quit the country.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
In accordance with this fundamental view, Clement, for example, repudiated the Gnostic theory of the vileness of matter, condemned asceticism, and regarded the world as hallowed by the presence of indwelling Deity.
— from The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge by John Fiske
If, following the views of Dr Dohrn [302] , we regard the mouth as representing a cleft, we shall have seven clefts and eight segments; and it is possible, as pointed out in Dr Dohrn's very suggestive pamphlet, that remnants of a still greater number of præoral clefts may still be in existence.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour
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