Their food is specified in Welsh folk-lore as fairy butter and fairy victuals, ymenyn tylwyth teg and bwyd ellyllon; the latter the toadstool, or poisonous mushroom, and the former a butter-resembling substance found at great depths in the crevices of limestone rocks, in sinking for [ Pg 14] lead ore.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But besides all this, there is in and about this city a whole university, as it were, of students, practicers or pleaders, and judges of the laws of this realm, not living of common stipends, as in other universities it is for the most part done, but of their own private maintenance, as being altogether fed either by their places or practice, or otherwise by their proper revenue, or exhibition of parents and friends; for that the younger sort are either gentlemen or the sons of gentlemen, or of other most wealthy persons.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

These latter persons are tied to their senses, restricted to their natural experience; and many of them, moreover, feel a sort of intellectual loyalty to what they call 'hard facts,' which is positively shocked by the easy excursions into the unseen that other people make at the bare call of sentiment.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Why do witches and old women fascinate and bewitch children: but as Wierus, Paracelsus, Cardan, Mizaldus, Valleriola, Caesar Vanninus, Campanella, and many philosophers think, the forcible imagination of the one party moves and alters the spirits of the other.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Having a great esteem for his talents, which was all I knew of him, full of gratitude for his kind intentions, and moreover unacquainted in my retirement with his taste and manner of living, I already considered him as the avenger of the public and myself; and being at that time writing the conclusion of my Social Contract, I stated in it, in a single passage, what I thought of preceding ministers, and of him by whom they began to be eclipsed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ENLARGE PALAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS The traces of Palaeolithic man are very numerous, and he evidently exercised great skill in bringing his implements to a symmetrical shape by chipping.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Germany a commercial Power, Germany a naval Power, Germany with colonies here and a Forward Policy there, and legitimate aspirations in the other place, might appeal to others, and be fitly served by them; for his own part, he abstained from the fruits of victory, and naturalised himself in England.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

What seems exquisite to one poet may accordingly seem vapid to another, when the texture of experience in the two minds differs, so that a given composition rustles through one man's fancy as a wind might through a wood, but finds no sympathetic response in the other organism, nerved as it may be, perhaps, to precision in thought and action.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The only precious materials are flesh and blood, for these alone can defend and propagate the ideal which has once informed them.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

With an introductory analysis of the literature and theories of primitive marriage and the family.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For example, take volumes XX and XXI of the "Astronomical Journal" and tabulate the papers, memoirs, etc., therein published, numbering two hundred and thirty-eight, and we find of these, seventy-four on the stars; sixty-two on the comets; nineteen on planets and satellites, mostly mathematical; eighteen on the Sun; eighteen on the asteroids; fifteen on Eros; ten on polar motion and latitude; four on Nova Persei; and seventeen miscellaneous, consisting of logarithms, instruments, Gegenschein, etc.; and only one on Mars, and this on the polar snow caps!
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

But you have made of it a thing of passion, merciless and cruel—'tis love debased.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

I could discern tents and marquees, a throng of people moving among them.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Bunyan's perception that righteousness is filthy rags, his scorn for Mr Legality in the village of Morality, his defiance of the Church as the supplanter of religion, his insistence on courage as the virtue of virtues, his estimate of the career of the conventionally respectable and sensible Worldly Wiseman as no better at bottom than the life and death of Mr Badman: all this, expressed by Bunyan in the terms of a tinker's theology, is what Nietzsche has expressed in terms of post-Darwinian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

" "Are not our theatres as fine as those of Paris?" "Most assuredly.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Strain the juice from them, and to every quart allow half an ounce of allspice, the same quantity of ginger, half a teaspoonful of powdered mace and [Pg 585] half a teaspoonful of cayenne.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Example is everything when men are engaged in strenuous operations; and if those in command show coolness, determination, sangfroid, and other virtues, their own particular men are wonderfully heartened.
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

They were likewise talking of prosecuting me as a Witch, but they have thought better of it.
— from Letters to his mother, Ann Borrow and Other Correspondents by George Borrow