King Edward's mother was Queen Emma, daughter of Richard, earl of Rouen.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This easy transition is the effect, or rather essence of relation; I and as the imagination readily takes one idea for another, where their influence on the mind is similar; hence it proceeds, that any such succession of related qualities is readily considered as one continued object, existing without any variation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

As Enthusiasm is a kind of Excess in Devotion, Superstition is the Excess not only of Devotion, but of Religion in general, according to an old Heathen Saying, quoted by Aulus Gellius , Religentem esse oportet, Religiosum nefas ; A Man should be Religious, not Superstitious:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

After his death Edward the Good, a son of the English king Ethelred (and Emma, a daughter of Richard earl of Rouen), was chosen king in England.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Suppose a man a realistic expression of resolute reliability suggests pleasing itself white all white
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Rosalie knew that I meant it to draw a sort of declaration of love from her; but I have never felt certain whether the embrace and the sisterly kiss which were awarded me after I had sung my great aria from Ada, were bestowed on me from real emotion or rather out of affectionate regard.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The two sisters, neither of whom had had any real education, often returned playfully to the ways of their childhood.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas —A man should be religious, not superstitious.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He was of Lord Essex's opinion, who advises his kinsman Roger Earl of Rutland, 'rather to go an hundred miles to speak with one wise man, than five miles to see a fair town.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Recreative elements of religion, 379 ff. , 382 f. Reincarnation of souls, doctrine of, in Australia, 169 , 250 , 253 f. , 256 , 265 .
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Give them all a wide berth—concert-saloons, dives, dens, hells, houses of ill-repute, bucket-shops, slums, cribs, joints—all! and remember that what is essentially debasing can never reanimate exhaustion or repair fatigue.
— from Stop! A Handy Monitor, Pocket Conscience and Portable Guardian against the World, the Flesh and the Devil by Nathan Dane Urner

RENAULD, Esq. , of Renauld, Francois & Co. JULIEN LE CESNE, Resident Secretary.
— from Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

I, Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate of the Scots Bar, author of The Master of Ballantrae and Moral Emblems , stuck civil engineer, sole owner and patentee of the Palace and Plantation known as Vailima in the island of Upolu, Samoa, a British Subject, being in sound mind, and pretty well, I thank you, in body; In consideration that Miss Annie H. Ide, daughter of H. C. Ide, in the town of Saint Johnsbury, in the county of Caledonia, in the state of Vermont, United States of America, was born, out of all reason, upon Christmas Day, and is therefore out of all justice denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday; And considering that I, the said Robert Louis Stevenson, have attained an age when O, we never mention it, and that I have now no further use for a birthday of any description; And in consideration that I have met H. C. Ide, the father of the said Annie H. Ide, and found him about as white a land commissioner as I require; Have transferred , and do hereby transfer , to the said Annie H. Ide, all and whole my rights and privileges in the thirteenth day of November, formerly my birthday, now, hereby, and henceforth, the birthday of the said Annie H. Ide, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the same in the customary manner, by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats, and receipt of gifts, compliments, and copies of verse, according to the manner of our ancestors; And I direct the said Annie H. Ide to add to the said name of Annie H. Ide the name Louisa—at least in private; and I charge her to use my said birthday with moderation and humanity, et tamquam bona filia familiæ , the said birthday not being so young as it once was, and 90 having carried me in a very satisfactory manner since I can remember;
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

One, more enterprising than the rest, took a boot up, passed it to his neighbour, and in a short time it had circulated from hand to hand throughout the population of Minoge, and was even felt and pinched by the mayor himself, who replaced it with the reverence due to some religious emblem or relic.
— from The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various

[11] By all accounts, friendly and hostile, the Lombard priests were married openly, legally, with religious rite, exchange of ring, and notarial deed.
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“To see his face when the will’s read,” explained old Ralph, with a grim smile.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice

Not but what I've read enough of romance-books—many's the many!
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

And in the Cambridge Dictionary , 1594, "Allevatus, lifted up, lighted , raised, eased or recovered."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various