Possibly the belief is that a man who rises early for early rising’s sake deserves to be clever.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

SYN: Composition, fabrication, explanation, rendering, erection, fabric, edifice, reading, understanding, interpretation, view.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Now, since a Christian is forbidden to retort evil for evil (Rom. 12:17; Matt 5:39), (this agreeing in no wise with the Christian faith); there is no other counsel left, but that by a conscience void of offence, he derives his comfort from those divine oracles with which the Lord has furnished him for that purpose. 4. (1) Let thy first comfort be the example of Christ and of all the saints.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

Dying childless, his next brother succeeded him, in whom the race ended; for Egremond Ratcliffe, his youngest brother, had already completed his disastrous destiny.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The Christian greed for gold and the civilized cruelty practised without scruple in plundering the unregenerate and unbaptized of their possessions of all kinds, soon taught the Indian cunning and the necessity of resorting to all manner of savage and untutored devices to enable him to cope with his relentless enemies for even restrained liberty and self-preservation; nay, even for very existence, and this too on his own soil that generously gave him bread and meat.
— from Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens

In fact it was rather enhanced, for everybody recognised that I had correctly located the place where by rights it ought to have been.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

Different degrees of this double obligation: 1, not to return evil for good ( ingratitude ); 2, not to do evil to those who have not done us any ( injustice and cruelty ); 3, not to return evil for evil ( revenge ); 4, to return good for good ( gratitude ); 5, to do good to those who have not done us any ( charity ); 6, to return good for evil ( clemency , generosity ).
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

Thebes f106 Greek Relief: Eleusis f107 Egyptian Relief: Denderah f107 Chartres Cathedral: Carving on West Front f108 Chartres Cathedral: Tympanum of Central Door of West Front f109 Medals of the Lords of Mantua, Cesena, and Ferrara, by Vittore Pisano f110 Treatment of Draped Figure in Black on White Ground and vice versâ f111a Treatment of the same Figure in Light and Shade f111b The Graphic Principle of the Expression of Form by Light and Shade; with and without Outline f112 Linear Expression of Features, Feathers and Fur: Notes from Nature f113 Sketches to illustrate the Graphic and the Decorative Treatment of Draped Figures f114 Decorative Treatment of Birds f115 Floral Designs upon Typical Inclosing Shapes of Indian and Persian Ornament f116 Dancing Figure with the Governing Lines of the Movement f117a Lines of Floral Growth and Structure: Lily and Rose f117b Coast-lines, Gulf of Nauplia f118a Lines of Movement in Water, Shallow Stream over Sand f118b Giotto: Chastity (Lower Church, Assisi)
— from Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane