“The circumstance that the symbol, on its side of the union of the two, becomes perfectly clear while the symbolized object is rather confused, is explained by the fact that the symbol recalls its object more quickly than the object the symbol; e.g., the tool recalls its use more quickly than the purpose its instrument.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

"I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me: I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When, therefore, such and such a body undergoes no change from its existing state, we say that it is at rest ; but, if it departs from this in any respect we then say that in this respect it undergoes motion .
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It was the safe place for the battle that revived itself under Martin’s eyelids.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

It is the first general treatise on heredity which leads consciously, yet as of necessity, towards eugenics as the crown and goal of the whole study, and in this respect it undoubtedly marks an epoch.
— from Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

The fluency and eloquence of Middleton's style and his admirable delineation of character by rapid dialogue are best shown in the early scenes; after the old mother, so beautifully and truly drawn, has disappeared from the action, the rest is unrelieved murder and lust.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

For another view of the religious impact upon medieval medical and surgical practices, see James J. Walsh , The Popes and Science (New York: Fordham University Press, 1908), pages 167-198.
— from Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Toby A. Appel

For it was impossible to realize it until moral and mental conditions had been reconciled; and this has been now done by the foundation of a Positive science of society.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

It is not, however, to this washing of Aaron, that reference is usually made by the exponents of this theory.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

But to attempt to depict all of what seemed a strange, actual experience, and that I now know to have been crowded into a few hours, would only excite ridicule; though there was something so fascinating and absorbing to my engaged mind, that I frequently long to reproduce its unearthly music and sights.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton

On the 8th of January we paid our first visit to the great Church of St. John Lateran, [9] and here also the relics interested us more than anything else.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

Which being so divine and comfortable a thing to them who receive it worthily, and so dangerous to them that will presume to receive it unworthily; my duty is to exhort you in the mean season to consider the dignity of that holy mystery, and the great peril of the unworthy receiving thereof; and so to search and examine your own consciences, and that not lightly, and after the manner of dissemblers with God: but so that ye may come holy and clean to such a heavenly Feast, in the marriage-garment required by God in holy Scripture, and be received as worthy partakers of that holy Table.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland