Rather should we expect, that, in a question of this scope, the experience of the entire human race must make the verification, and that all the evidence will not be 'in' till the final integration of things, when the last man has had his say and contributed his share to the still unfinished x .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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— from The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by John Casey
for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen! XX. Ah! my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears- To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen! XXI.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
In military affairs the strength of an army is the product of its mass and some unknown x .
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Erasmus, if we are to believe what he wrote to them,— which is scarcely possible,—declared that the work in Spain under Ximenes followed the best type of a reformation in the Church.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay
John Verrazzani, a celebrated Florentine navigator, proceeded to America with a squadron of four ships, under {xxxii}the auspices of Francis the First of France, in 1523.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing
A PLATFORM NOT DANGEROUS TO STAND UPON XXXVII.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
403 original from the Decameron of Boccace, xi, 443 Signification, parabolical, of the Hind and the Panther, x, 90 critised, ib. 90 Silence of Dryden upon the death of Queen Mary, extracts from poems attacking him for, xviii, 222 Silent Woman, examination of the comedy of the, xv, 354 poets, a satire upon, xviii, 224 Silenus, a pastoral, xiii, 397 Silver Age, from Ovid, xii, 67 Silvester, John, extract from astrological observations of, x, 421 Simon, Pere Richard, character of, x, 31 Sincerity of Dryden in his attachment to the Catholic faith, i, 322 Singleton, a musical performer of eminence, x, 450 lxxxix Singular fashion of writing, x, 457 event at the siege of Bologna, ix, 18 Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feigned Innocence, a comedy, iii, 1 remarks on, ib. 3 prologue to, ib. 5 epilogue to, ib. 93 Skill of Polybius in Political affairs, xviii, 31 Smollett’s account of the birth of the son of James II.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden
That death sentence upon Xollar is irrevocable, and no man has yet escaped it no matter where upon the planet he may be when the appointed time for his execution comes.
— from Zehru of Xollar by Hal K. Wells
No one, however, is ignorant that the Persians worshipped fire as a symbol of the sun, and that is the reason why Datis, the captain of a ship under Xerxes, left the island of Delos unharmed, inasmuch as it was sacred to the sun, or Apollo.
— from Fishes, Flowers, & Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths & Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, &c. by Anonymous
DRAMATIC INCIDENTS X. SEEING ROME AS ROMANS SEE US XI.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Works by William Dean Howells
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