In the Preface to a recent volume of Select Readings on the Origin and Development of Legal Institutions , the editors venture [Pg 853] the statement, in justification of the materials from sociology that these volumes include, that "contrary, perhaps, to legal tradition, the law itself is only a social phenomenon and not to be understood in detachment from human uses, necessities and forces from which it arises."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"U" narrow and far from "3."
— from The Die Varieties of the Nesbitt Series of United States Envelopes by Victor Maximilian Berthold

Diagrams are used not as facts for observation, but merely to fix our attention in following the general argument; so that it matters little how badly they are drawn, as long as their divergence from the conditions of the proposition to be proved is not distracting.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

1 Mac 9:44 Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past: 1 Mac 9:45 For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

William Shakespeare was thus employed in London in building up name and fortune for himself, his father was in financial straits.
— from An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken

The Arabs have a custom of suspending figures of an 48 open hand from the necks of their children, and the Turks and Moors paint hands upon their ships and houses, "as an antidote and counter charm to an evil eye; for five is with them an unlucky number; and 'five (fingers, perhaps) in your eyes' is their proverb of cursing and defiance".
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

Leave them not to themselves, for they understand not and flee from that which is better for them than all that Thou hast created upon Thine earth.
— from The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh

Mediæval loving cups were usually named, and frequently for some estates that belonged to the owner.
— from Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

Let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into 441:12 oblivion, "unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

This took up nearly a foot for the knot; but the handle was nearly four feet long, so that by this scheme he gained another yard as an addition to the rope.
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn