But what brought infinite harm and damage on the said professions, even more than all the aforesaid causes, was the burning zeal of the new Christian religion, which, after a long and bloody combat, with its wealth of miracles and with the sincerity of its works, had finally cast down and swept away the old faith of the heathens, and, devoting itself most ardently with all diligence to driving out and extirpating root and branch every least occasion whence error could arise, not only defaced or threw to the ground all the marvellous statues, sculptures, pictures, mosaics, and ornaments of the false gods of the heathens, but even the memorials and the honours of numberless men of mark, to whom, for their excellent merits, the noble spirit of the ancients had set up statues and other
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Mais le roi le rassura avec bonté, et lui dit que les hommes étaient faits pour s'entr'aider.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

370 After the crusades "the Masons kept their rites and methods and in this way perpetuated the royal art by establishing lodges, first in England, then in Scotland," etc. 371
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

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— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

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— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

I wonder if he had read a book entitled, Love me, Love my Husband .
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

Our Judge would find the question more difficult to answer than is readily admitted by English lawyers not versed in any constitution except their own.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey

"You can't run a boat engine like you run an automobile motor, Matt," said Lorry.
— from Motor Matt's Prize; or, The Pluck That Wins by Stanley R. Matthews

So runs the story as recorded by the pen of the Roman aristocrats; but, even leaving out of view the accessory circumstances, the great crisis out of which the Twelve Tables arose cannot possibly have ended in such romantic adventures, and in political issues so incomprehensible.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

2. Capital (78) of the canton, occupies a splendid geographical position at the south-western end of the lake, at the exit of the Rhône; the town existed in Cæsar's time, and after being subject in turn to Rome and Burgundy, ere long won its independence in conjunction with Bern and Freiburg.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The public had never before read a book exactly like his Innocents Abroad .
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

It was the mighty tournament, not only of the two greatest nations, but the two deadliest rivals and bitterest enemies, led on by the two greatest military geniuses that the world has ever seen; it might not be too much to say, or ever will see.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Yet unto those legions of the republic which have emptied Richmond of a prize which yet they may have easily clutched, there go out reverence and blessing even larger than might be bestowed upon them resting in camp, upon these overlooking hills.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Flour, and put them in a dish, heads and tails alternately, with the roes; and, between each layer, put some little pieces of butter, and pepper and salt.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

MASS Thou Who hast made this world so wondrous fair;— The pomp of clouds; the glory of the sea; Music of water; songbirds' melody; The organ of Thy thunder in the air; Breath of the rose; and beauty everywhere— Lord, take this stately service done to Thee, The grave enactment of Thy Calvary In jewelled pomp and splendor pictured there!
— from Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody