Language not primarily intellectual in purpose The common statement that "language is the expres [Pg 179] sion of thought" conveys only a half-truth, and a half-truth that is likely to result in positive error.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

We may say that its interdicts are the religious interdicts par excellence .
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Again, in India, as often in Europe, the rite is performed exclusively by females.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In the passive second person singular, Terence has always, Plautus commonly -re ; later it is unusual in the present indicative, except in deponents; but in other tenses -re is preferred, especially in the future -bere , by Cicero, -ris by Livy and Tacitus.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I think it would be impossible to make an admission with more ill will and a worse grace than Mr. Smallweed displayed when he admitted this, rendering it perfectly evident that Mr. Bucket was the very last person he would have thought of taking into his confidence if he could by any possibility have kept him out of it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In this respect it probably exercises more real influence on the social body in America than in Europe.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The reason is plain enough.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the first stage the result is pleasurable emotions; in the second, mere intoxication; and in the third, madness."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

In the compartment at the right is pictured Esther's banquet, the second feast, related in Chap.
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle

I find that the MS. lent me by the Principal of the Sanskrit College agrees with the reading I propose, except that it gives gandharva .
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

"Ah! the only man in England who can cut ; but the German Schneiders who take root in Paris eclipse him entirely.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

To reform some corruptions which may have spread in a religion, or to make new regulations in it, is not perhaps so hard, when the main and principal part of that religion is preserved entire and unshaken; and yet this very often cannot be accomplished without an extraordinary concurrence of circumstances, and may be attempted a thousand times without success.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

``The principal function of the academy shall be to labour with all care and diligence to give certain rules to our language, and to render it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the arts and sciences'' (Art. 24).
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Laure has got the right idea; play 'em safe and sure, and let the other feller do the work.
— from The Winds of Chance by Rex Beach

Then I thought and still think that France and England represent democracy against absolutism, and then, although every one of these reasons is powerful enough alone, yet another has influenced me strongly."
— from The Hosts of the Air by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

And, as the same causes ever produce the same effects, we find that, even so late as Elizabeth’s reign, the savage Irish (who were much in the state of the ancient Greeks , living under the anarchy, rather than government, of their numberless puny chiefs) had their Rhymers in principal estimation.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd