—‘I believe people saw fairies, but I think one reason no one sees them now is because every place in this parish where they used to appear has been put into sheep, and deer, and grouse, and shooting.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Unless the whole army were going by the Orense road, no one should have been sent along it: and the difficulties of the track were such that to have taken the main body over it would have been practically impossible.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

Although humble petitions from an outcast people, who had been ignominiously thrust forth into exile 365 years before, Manasseh’s appeals have not the smallest trace of reproach nor of servility, into either of which mistakes it would have been so easy to fall.
— from Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 by Magnus, Katie, Lady

[Pg 419] "Yes," the other replied, "neither on sea or shore fail experiments of the heart; and if we could only land you, King," continued the speaker, drawing near to the sofa, "three or four hours hence in Bergen, I would not decline fighting the same battle, ignorant of its chances, again next week."
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

—A steamboat-landing on the Ocklawaha River, near Orange Springs.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

The most remarkable thing to be said about the vizcacha is, that although regarded by Mr. Waterhouse, and others who have studied its affinities, as one of the lowest of the rodents, exhibiting strong Marsupial characters, the living animal appears to be more intelligent than other rodents, not of South America only, but also of those of a higher type in other continents.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The fact that the officers of the latter are practically unanimous in declaring that they would never favour going back to the old regime has made a good deal of an impression on the British, and more and more frequently I hear the older Royal Naval officers saying that they wished they had the same anti-liquor rules in force in their own ships.
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

As a matter of fact the official reports not only showed that the accident was one of a class of most frequent occurrence, but also that sixty-one cases of it had occurred in Great Britain alone during the very year the gentleman in question was journeying in Europe, and had occasioned over six hundred cases of death or personal injury.
— from Notes on Railroad Accidents by Charles Francis Adams

250 Suetonius, 221 Suicide, advised by certain philosophers, 112 Sun, course of the, 84 Suns, the five, of Mexico, 118 Superstition, piety compared with, 251 Sweden, queen of, 75 Sword, the right of the, 67 Symmetry, definition of, 304 Synagogues, a type of the Church, 176 Tacitus, 221 Talmud, its predictions of the Messiah, 152 —— date of composition of, 196 Temple, its reprobation prophesied by Jeremiah, 149 Tennis, 37 Tertullian, 127 Testaments, proof of the two, at once, 157 —— proof that the Old, is figurative, 158 —— Old and New, their relations, 165 —— sacrifices and ceremonies of Old, either figures or absurdities, 174 Thamar, story of, 220 Theatre, dangers of the, for the Christian soul, 248 Theology, taken as an example of diversity, 32 Theresa, Saint, her double greatness, 246 —— what she was when alive and now, 275 Thought, greatness of man consists in, 46 —— makes man's being, 47 —— the whole dignity of man lies in, 48 —— great in essence, vile in defects, 48 Thoughts, spring up by chance, 29 —— escape us in writing, 29 Tide of the sea, 84 Time, our imagination enlarges the present, 56 Towns through which we pass, 59 Trades, choice of, 78 Transmission of sin, without this mystery we could not know ourselves, 107 Trent, Council of, 291 Truth, there is no, in man, 19 —— we hate, and those who tell it us, 85 —— necessity of seeking, 95 —— we know, by the heart as well as by reason, 102 —— is not within our reach, nor to our taste, 107 —— we have an idea of, which scepticism cannot overcome, 109 —— has visible signs, 208 —— makes us free, 245 —— opposite truth to be remembered with a, 279 —— unable to know, unless we love truth, 280 —— the first rule and ultimate end of things, 281 Truths of religion, necessity of seeking, 3 [361] Turk, the Grand, 53 Turks, their example alleged by the wicked, 211 —— miracles of the, 258 —— grand sultan of the, 80 Twelve tables, law of the, 121 Types in general, their lawfulness, 157 —— unintelligible to the Jews and bad Christians, 158 —— understood only in the fulness of time, 158 —— compared to a portrait, 159 —— the word of God false literally, true spiritually, 159 —— of Old Testament only figures, 162 —— the reason of, 162 —— of Christ, 165 —— different kinds of, some seem far-fetched, 165 —— reason for the use of, 170 —— of Old Testament either figures or absurdities, 174 —— made according to the truth,
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal