The divine soul God lodged in the head, to raise us, like plants which are not of earthly origin, to our kindred; for the head is nearest to heaven.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Again, if Nature, creatress of all things, Were wont to force all things to be resolved Unto least parts, then would she not avail To reproduce from out them anything; Because whate'er is not endowed with parts Cannot possess those properties required Of generative stuff—divers connections, Weights, blows, encounters, motions, whereby things Forevermore have being and go on. H2 anchor CONFUTATION OF OTHER PHILOSOPHERS
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Having become a widower, Matifat remarried under Louis Philippe, and retired from business.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But, irrespective of the miseries which in this life are common to the good and bad, the righteous undergo labours peculiar to themselves, in so far as they make war upon their vices, and are involved in the temptations and perils of such a contest.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct, like a vapour exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly, misty and silent before me; while at my back the fires loomed between the trees, and the murmur of many voices issued from the forest.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

On his resignation in 1818 the Rev. John Bethune was presented by the king as rector under letters patent, which created a rectory and defined the limits of the parish.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

There has been none of that "ripping up, like pigs," which Lord Tennyson so forcibly deprecated.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

Mr. Dod, therefore, in his remarkably useful little parliamentary compendium, put down Mr. Harcourt as a liberal: this he had an opportunity of doing immediately after Mr. Harcourt's election: in his next edition, however, he added, "but supports the general policy of Sir Robert Peel's government."
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

The world, I fear, cannot be run upon lenient principles.
— from The Second Fiddle by Phyllis Bottome

He was a Royalist under Louis Phillippe, and that king created him a peer of France in 1845.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

{187} CHAPTER VIII LATER DAYS IN ROME Crime very prevalent in Rome under later popes—Repressive edicts—Gambling carried to great excess—Atrocious murders committed by persons of high rank—Presentation of the Chinea—Decrees published by the governor of Rome against law-breakers—Discipline of nunneries—Guiseppe Balsamo, called Count Cagliostro, the famous adventurer—His travels and marriage—He professes to have discovered the “Philosopher’s stone”—He foretells the advent of the French Revolution—His last visit to Rome—Arrest and imprisonment—Pope Pius VI commutes the sentence of death to perpetual imprisonment—Balsamo dies in prison and his wife in a convent.
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

Gomez, who was born in Oporto and reared there to a sea-faring life, for some reason, unexplained; left Portugal and entered into the Spanish service, in which he was appointed pilot in 1518, at the some time that Sebastian Cabot was created pilot major in the same service.
— from The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Henry Cruse Murphy

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— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

The tent where they had given their performances had disappeared from the earth, and screaming men and women were rolling up large pieces of canvas, fastening packs, and swearing while they harnessed horses.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers