When shall she breathe her from the blushing toil? How many a doubtful day shall sink in night, Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil, And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil? XCI.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
A VENTURE VI AT FULL STEAM VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE VIII MOBILIS IN MOBILI IX NED LAND'S TEMPERS X THE MAN OF THE SEAS XI ALL BY ELECTRICITY XII SOME FIGURES XIII THE BLACK RIVER XIV A NOTE OF INVITATION XV A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA XVI A SUBMARINE FOREST XVII FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC XVIII VANIKORO XIX TORRES STRAITS XX A FEW DAYS ON LAND XXI CAPTAIN
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
Anaxibius thereupon summoned Xenophon and bade him, by every manner of means, sail to the army with the utmost speed, and keep it together.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon
name of Antiolochus of Lemnos, and with Antipho, an interpreter of prodigies, as Pythagoras had with Cylon of Crotona; and Homer while alive with Sagaris, and after his death with Xenophanes the Colophonian; and Hesiod, too, in his lifetime with Cercops, and after his death with the same Xenophanes; and Pindar with Amphimenes of Cos; and Thales with Pherecydes; and Bias with Salarus of Priene; and Pittacus with Antimenides; and Alcæus and Anaxagoras with Sosibius; and Simonides with Timocreon.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
Adventures by the Shore XLVIII.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
A bush, a bird, a fish who swims the sea, XIII.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
Fair play — Both went to see. XIX.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
It is not—or ought not to be—necessary for you to stop to think how to say the alphabet correctly, as a matter of fact it is slightly more difficult for you to repeat Z, Y, X than it is to say X, Y, Z—habit has established the order.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
Plato, moreover, says, that ‘tis the office of prudence to draw instructions of divination of future things from dreams: I don’t know about this, but there are wonderful instances of it that Socrates, Xenophon, and Aristotle, men of irreproachable authority, relate.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
Every logician, Aldrichian or otherwise, accepts it as an established fact that “Some x are y ” may be legitimately converted into “Some y are x .”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
THE SURPRISE XXIII.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard
II , A sporozoite invading an intestinal epithelial cell; III , intestinal epithelial cell with young trophozoite; IV , intestinal epithelial cell with a globular schizont; V , nuclear segmentation within the schizont; VI , the daughter nuclei arranging themselves superficially; VII , formation of the merozoites; VIII , merozoites that have become free, and which, penetrating into other epithelial cells of the same intestine, repeat the schizogony ( II - VIII ); IX and X , merozoites which, likewise invading the epithelial cells of the same intestine, become sexually differentiated; xi a, young macrogametocyte; XI b, older macrogametocyte; XI c, mature macrogametocyte (discharging particles of chromatin); XII a, young microgametocyte; XII b, older microgametocyte; XII c, increase of nuclei in the microgametocyte; XII d, the globular residual body around which numerous microgametes have formed; XII e, an isolated microgamete; XIII , the mature macrogamete surrounded by numerous microgametes and forming a cone of reception or fertilization prominence; XIV , shows the nucleus of a microgamete that has penetrated and fused with the nucleus of the macrogamete (fertilization)—the latter forms a membrane and becomes an oöcyst; XV , XVI , XVII , nuclear segmentation in the oöcyst; XVIII , oöcyst with four sporoblasts; XIX , the sporoblasts transformed into spores, each containing two sporozoites; XX , the cyst introduced into the intestine and liberating the sporozoites by bursting.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald
Q That is to say " x P entails x Q" is to mean the same as "Each one of all the various propositions, which are alike in respect of the fact that each asserts with regard to some given thing that that thing has P, entails that one among the various propositions, alike in respect of the fact that each asserts with regard to some given thing that that thing has Q, which makes this assertion with regard to the same thing , with regard to which the proposition of the first class asserts that it has P."
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore
4 ; humility of, xxviii. 20 ; promise of, to protect the Saint, xxviii. 21 ; always consoled the Saint, xxix. 5 ; hesitates about the new foundation, xxxii. 16 ; commands the Saint to abandon it, xxxiii.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint
THE SOWER XII.
— from Jean François Millet A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter, with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
The Story XIII.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
On the Search XIII.
— from Richard Dare's Venture; Or, Striking Out for Himself by Edward Stratemeyer
As oft, to daunt them, in the act to fly, Storms lashed the deep, and Southern gales withstand, And louder still, when towered the horse on high 127 With maple timbers, pealed the thunder through the sky. XVI .
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil
Prophecies made to the Saint, xxxiv. 23 ; fulfilled, Rel.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint
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