Placido Penitente XIII.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

persuasive power, xii. 68 .
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

This is never more than some six miles off, a distance which, should the wind have dropped, may even be reached by paddling. Plate XL A Waga Sailing on a Kula Expedition A canoe fully loaded with a crew of twelve men, just about to furl sail arriving in the Amphletts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Candish's reasons for allowing wager of law with Y.B. 32 & 33 Ed. I., Preface, p. xxxvi.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In any case, there is no doubt that he was much more than a mere compiler and systematizer of other men’s work: he was great enough to be able not merely to collect, to digest, and to assimilate all the best of the work done before his time, but, adding to this the outcome of his own observations, experiments, and reflections, to present Pg xxv the whole in an articulated “system” showing that perfect balance of parts which is the essential criterion of a work of art.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Pages | PG # xxxxx |
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Consequently Practical Reason is not in the least what most people, including even Fichte, have regarded it—a special faculty that cannot be traced to its source, a qualitas occulta , a sort of moral instinct, like Hutcheson's "moral sense"; but it is (as Kant himself in his preface, p. xii.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

2 is from Pugin, plate xxi.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Nor could this silence in itself be taken as a proof that ascetic practices had not in her view a preparatory [Pg xxxvii] function such as has by many of the Mystics been assigned to them during a process of self-training in the earlier stages of the soul's ascent to aptitude for mystical vision.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

No. 2, and Pittura, Plate xvi.
— 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

It is not said he hath no anger, but that he is “slow to anger,” but sharp in it: he hath a sword to cut, and a bow to shoot, and arrows to pierce (Ps. xii.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Suffice it to say that he gave peace, prosperity, [Pg xi] and freedom to the people, formed hostile races into one great nation, and rendered his memory immortal by the laws which he instituted.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

("Minor Poems," p. xxxiii.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

The ideal way, however, to cultivate an eye for a horse is to study his make-up externally and internally from the plates of the skeleton and the internal parts (Plates XVI.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

It is not essentially a process of detaching the thought from created things of time—still less one of detaching the heart from created beings of eternity—but a process of more and more allowing and presenting [Pg xxxvi] the man to be fastened closely to God by means of the original longing of the soul, the influence of the Holy Ghost, and the discipline of life with its natural tribulations, which by their purifying serve to strengthen the affections that remaining pass through them. "
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

69 The Passionate Pilgrim , xix.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

*Preface : Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli: p. xiii.
— from Silhouettes by Arthur Symons

voici du sang, accours, viens boire, petit, petit!” XXII.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

COCOA PARFAIT Plate XI.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

2 See the Prolegomena prefixed to Wyttenbach’s edition of the Phædon, p. xxi.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote