1 is from Pugin, plate xviii., and is a very common finial representing the trinity.
— 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

I beg, also, if at any time before this I have in any way offended you, that you would give me the same [Pg xii] absolution that you ask, assuring you, that henceforward my heart shall be dedicated to you alone.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

For years, that is to say, from the time Billow's [Pg xi] arrangement of Tristan and Isolde for the pianoforte, had appeared, he had already been a passionate admirer of Wagner's music; but now that the artist himself entered upon the scene of his life, with the whole fascinating strength of his strong will, my brother felt that he was in the presence of a being whom he, of all modern men, resembled most in regard to force of character.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

NEMO'S III A PEARL OF TEN MILLIONS IV THE RED SEA V THE ARABIAN TUNNEL VI THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO VII THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS VIII VIGO BAY IX A VANISHED CONTINENT X THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES XI THE SARGASSO SEA XII CACHALOTS AND WHALES XIII THE ICEBERG XIV THE SOUTH POLE XV ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

On the same principle, seeing that all our philosophies and moralities have hitherto been directed [Pg xvii] at a mass and at a mob, we find that their elevation must of necessity be decided by the lowest of mankind.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[Pg xxxv] as it lies within the reach of my powers to drag from the ravening maw of time, the names of the sculptors, painters, and architects, who, from Cimabue to the present day, have been of some notable excellence in Italy, and desiring that this my labour may be no less useful than it has been pleasant to me in the undertaking, it appears to me necessary, before we come to the history, to make as briefly as may be an introduction to these three arts, wherein those were valiant of whom I am to write the Lives, to the end that every gracious spirit may first learn the most notable things in their professions, and afterwards may be able with greater pleasure and benefit to see clearly in what they were different among themselves, and how great adornment and convenience they give to their countries and to all who wish to avail themselves of their industry and knowledge.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

After all has been finally fitted, and made to tally, the framework of ribs is put into the canoe (see Plate XXVII ), and the natives proceed to lash them to the body of the dug-out, and to the two longitudinal poles to which the ribs are threaded.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Read what Solomon hath said in their praises, Prov. xiii. and Siracides, cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Transcribers Note: Diagram XV , Plate XXXVII ] and 168
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

("Murs, ville et port.") {XXVIII., Aug. 28, 1828.} Town, tower, Shore, deep, Where lower Cliff's steep; Waves gray, Where play Winds gay, All sleep.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Islands ( Plate XXIV .) are always evil and denote weakness or failure of the Line or Mount on which they may be found.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

I endeavour to render myself as [Pg xi] agreeable as I see others fickle; as affable as I see others rough; and as good as I see others evil.”
— from Talkers: With Illustrations by John Bate

Plate XLIX Artocarpus incisa.
— from Fruits of the Hawaiian Islands by Gerrit Parmile Wilder

[Pg xl] An heraud on a scaffold made an o, Til that the noise of the peple was ydo, And whan he saw the peple of noise al still, Thus shewed he the mighty dukes will.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden

But if we know the point for which he was making in a right line from point x , and if we also know the wind which carried him back to point x , then the line on which point x itself lies is also known.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

She meets the poet after he has been dragged through the river Lethê (Purgatory , xxxi), and conducts him through paradise.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

[Pg xxxiv] and not by reason of any difference or degree of nobility that is in truth to be found between them.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

It is equally idle to suppose that not one of them should have brought forward a serious argument against me, if there were any such [Pg x] argument to bring.
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler