After dining with the Grand-Duke of Florence, Montaigne passed rapidly over the intermediate country, which had no fascination for him, and arrived at Rome on the last day of November, entering by the Porta del Popolo, and putting up at Bear.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

WE single not out baptism and make it essential, nor conversion—as a whole—and make it essential; but we single out what the Lord requires , not only in regard to conversion, or making Disciples, but in regard to the life or the practice required of those in Christ, in which they are to continue after they have turned to the Lord; everything in the law of God, and maintain that it is all essential .
— from A Book of Gems, or, Choice selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Italian Cook Book THE ITALIAN COOK BOOK The Art of Eating Well PRACTICAL RECIPES OF THE ITALIAN CUISINE PASTRIES SWEETS, FROZEN DELICACIES AND SYRUPS COMPILED BY MRS.
— from The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well; Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies, and Syrups by Maria Gentile

It has therefore been thought that a book of PRACTICAL RECIPES OF THE ITALIAN CUISINE could be offered to the American public with hope of success.
— from The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well; Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies, and Syrups by Maria Gentile

Profound attention has been given to the proper reproduction of the individual characters of its subjects, while the art has not been allowed to sink into caricature or commonplaceness.
— from A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Already the Pic du Gers rose out of the valley sacred to Mary, and the heart instinctively turns from everything else to hail the new star that has risen in these favored heavens to diffuse the pure radiance of the Immaculate Conception!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Mr. James, I feel sure, could never have put into the mouth of a “rudimentary” person like Huck, so vivid and graphic a description of a storm with its perfect reproduction of the impression caught by the “rudimentary” mind.
— from Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson

When suppuration is threatened, with increase of the swelling, inability of the patient to empty the sac by pressure, redness of the integuments, &c., an early opening should be made into the tumour, in order to prevent further and more serious mischief.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

All this applied, as we have already observed, to the whole empire; but the very practical consequences of the provincial regulation of the imperial cultus—the exercise of religious superintendence and the persecution of persons of another faith—were drawn pre–eminently in Asia Minor.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen

Pathways through to space, a personal record of transformation in consciousness.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office