Flowers are very seldom preserved; I never saw any that I remember, save only cowslip flowers, and that was a great fashion in Sussex when I was a boy.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

But St Paul is not satisfied with this precaution.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I should place it nearer still, for I believe that absolute cleanliness is godliness.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Naturalization, as a social process, is naturally something more fundamental than the legal ceremony of naturalization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If they please thee and the other sages, publish; if not, suppress them.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Each one of a gang so placed, is not so much greedy of reward, or anxious for escape, as fearful of betrayal.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

In fact, dry as California is commonly and erroneously supposed to be, it exports a considerable quantity of butter, and a dairy-man said to me but recently that, to make the business really prosperous, the State needed a million or two more inhabitants, which means that the surplus product is now so great that it keeps down the price.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

The tendency here criticized is undoubtedly derived from Hegel, but passages suggestive of the opposite view can be extracted from his writings, e.g.: 'God, however, as subjective Power, is not simply will, intention, etc., but rather immediate Cause' ( Philosophy of Religion , Eng.
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

No one can know so well as the modern biologist in what an immeasurable degree the mechanisms which occur in such profusion in nature surpass, in every form of excellence, the highest triumphs of human invention.
— from Thoughts on Religion by George John Romanes

The island of Saint Martin is shared with France; its southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles; its northern portion is called Saint-Martin and is part of Guadeloupe (France).
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency