They are two ways of getting at the same point: Is the experience a personal thing of such a nature as inherently to stimulate and direct observation of the connections involved, and to lead to inference and its testing?
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Modern grants of crowns of Eastern character in connection with valuable service performed in the East by the recipient may be instanced; e.g. by the Eastern Crown in the grant to Sir Abraham Roberts, G.C.B., the father of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, K.G.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is first necessary to tell the entirely kindred story of the effect of that sea power in the East Indian peninsula.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

However, several passages in the Essays seem to indicate that he not only took service, but that he was actually in numerous campaigns with the Catholic armies.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

1, 87, in the same Plato is the excellent saying that for people to fall out with one another about which of two men should manage a state, were just as if the crew of a ship should quarrel about which of them should be pilot .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Corn, in the language of Scripture, is an emblem of the resurrection, and St. Paul, in that eloquent discourse which is so familiar to all, as a beautiful argument for the great Christian doctrine of a future life, adduces the seed of grain, which, being sown, first dieth, and then quickeneth, as the appropriate type of that corruptible which must put on incorruption, and of that mortal which must assume immortality.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

When re-constructed at a subsequent period, Mr. Charles Small preserved, in the enlarged and elevated building, now known as Berkeley House, the shape and even a portion of the inner substance of the original structure.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Now I think it will be evident, that St Paul in this epistle 99 | St Paul contends for the universality of the Gospel, | feels himself challenged to contend for the universality of the Gospel.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In short, one may give a number of explanations of the thunderbolt; but we ought, above all things, to be on our guard against fables, and this one will easily be, if one follows faithfully the sensible phænomena in the explanation of these things, which are not perceived, except indirectly.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Reading extracts from German and Austrian newspapers, he brought out the fact that the Central Powers regarded Stürmer as a member "of those circles which look on the war against Germany without particular enthusiasm"; that Stürmer's appointment to the Foreign Ministry was greeted in the Teutonic countries as the beginning of a new era in Russian politics, while the dismissal of Sazonov produced in the Entente countries an effect "such as would have been produced by a pogrom."
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

How amply has this want of feeling towards a tender parent been recalled to my mind, and severely punished, in the events of my vagrant life!
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

I'd stick pins in their eyes—red-hot pins.
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

Since the Revolution there has been no difference in the education of the sexes nor in the independence of their economic and social position, in the exercise of responsibility or experience in the practical conduct of affairs.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

For they too turned their faces upward all, And, gazing unimaginable depths Beyond the seen, beheld the glory there, Wherein the scandal and the mystery Of visible things vanished, like shadows plunged In the exceeding brightness of the sun, Or were transformed to make the glory more, Like discords conquered heightening harmony.
— from The Epic of Saul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

The process of the folding off of the embryo from the blastoderm resembles exactly the similar process in the embryo bird.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

At such places in the East as Hankow, where a considerable Russian colony exists, there are three New Years of progressive virulence.
— from Life and sport in China Second Edition by Oliver George Ready

The policie was no sooner published than hearkened vnto and put in execution, whereby they so preuailed in the end, that Hercules wan the field, their enimies were put to flight, and Albion and his brother both slaine, and buried in that plot.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

What is most prominent in the spirit of this second period is the emergence of private interests and individual activities.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds