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It, is the great masses of the middle ranks in England, varied enough in fortune, education, habits, and tastes, but still one in some great condition of a status, that s
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
Impia te rationis inire elementa, viamque Endogredi sceleris.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote
Catherine Seville, Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 46-48.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
In his book on those words, Attende Tibi , to a monk, he presses the precept of being always fervent, never relaxing, in every virtue, especially in purity; and adds the example of St. Anthony, who, as St. Athanasius relates, notwithstanding his great mortifications, which he never relaxed from his youth to his old age, would never bathe or so much as wash his feet, or ever suffered any part of his body to be seen, except his face and hands, till after his death.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler
The elaborate account of the Druse religion is extremely valuable."— Examiner.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King
Close together, along the rostral ( i. e. , ventral) edge of the peduncle, two nearly straight, main ovarian tubes or ducts may be detected, which do not give out any branches till about half way down the peduncle, where they subdivide into branches, which inosculate together, and give rise to the mass filling the peduncle, and sometimes, as we have just seen, sending up branches round the sack.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin
Nec enim tam in malo statu res est, ut desint sanæ mentes, quibus et veritas placeat, et monstratum sibi rectum iter et videant et sequantur.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
flagitium et inordinatus furor prefatorum brutorum Animalium cessarunt usque ad duos vel circa citra annos quod veluti priscis temporibus rediere in eisdem vineis et vineto et damna inextimabilia et incomprehensibilia afferre ceperunt ita ut pluribus partibus nulli fructus sperantur percipi possetque in dies deterius evenire culpa forte hominum minus orationibus et cultui divino vacantium seu vota et debita non vere et integre reddentium que tamen omnia divinæ cognitioni consistit et remittenda veniunt eo quod Dei arcana cor hominis comprehendere nequit.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans
He had been in the drawing-room but a moment or so when the Professor and Will rushed in, each very excited.
— from Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
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