Chrysostome, speaking of such as are subject to bishops, 68 saith, In potestate positum est obedire vel non. Liberty in things indifferent, 69 saith Amandus Polanus, est per quam Christiani sunt liberi in usu vel abstinentia rerum adiaphorarom.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Author of a study in Positivist philosophy en
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

“Unless the sum is promptly paid, everything she owns will be sold at auction,” he informed Miss Gordon.
— from The Brownie Scouts and Their Tree House by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

"Two can make killing," he said, in perfectly plain English.
— from Ted Strong in Montana Or, With Lariat and Spur by Edward C. Taylor

Suppose that some In principled political enemy who wanted to be United States Commissioner or Notary Public in my place should assassinate me!!!
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

Considering the function of superstition in promoting political evolution, it is plain that primitive man must have been capable of believing and doing those things which (within certain limits) had so much biological and social value.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

Her family, I have always heard, was very good on both sides; she is poor, poor even to poverty, I fear now."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Gilbert Seldes, introd. Pablo Picasso, etchings, drawings & design.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Hence come the widely divergent results which still meet us in so many of the sciences, in Politics, Psychology, etc., hence the fact that a great deal of science, instead of correcting, widening, and harmonizing the common consciousness, stands altogether apart from it, or even in direct opposition to it.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

The lower part of these steeples is perfectly plain; each has a sort of double belfry stage, and they are both finished with low spires—that on the south pierced with open traceries, and that on the north simply crocketed; both of them are somewhat ungainly, of very late date, and not sufficiently lofty or important for the church to which they are attached.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street