For we must necessarily understand by “sound” those whose minds are under no perturbation from any motion as if it were a disease.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mrs. Yu, having asked Chia Jung to come round, told him to direct Lai Sheng to make the usual necessary preparations for a banquet to last for a couple of days, with due regard to a profuse and sumptuous style.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Let us now pause for a moment on the ideas we have so far reached.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

p. 89; Christophor Hartknoch, Alt und Neues Preussen (Frankfort and Leipsic, 1684), pp.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

Not until national prohibition finds a place among Canadian laws, and is upheld by the Canadian government, will such bodies allow themselves to be dictated to by the temperance people.
— from The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O.C.

Let us now pause for a few moments to consider the importance of those two great divisions of nature, Air and Water, and to reflect upon the wisdom of some of those laws which are connected with the phenomena thereof, and which have not yet been sufficiently explained.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

Hartknoch, Alt und neues Preussen (Frankfort and Leipsic, 1684), p. 161; id. , Dissertationes historicae de variis rebus Prussicis , p. 163 (appended to his edition of P. de Dusburg's Chronicon Prussiae , Frankfort and Leipsic, 1679).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

The best proof indeed of the solidity of his fame is afforded by the esteem in which his works have been held for three centuries by nearly all persons who have had opportunities of seeing them, except such as have, upon narrow principles, formed an exclusive theory with respect to excellence in art.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

In this little volume we find a prescription for "an Elixer Universall, not particular for any distemper," as follows: [ 161 ] ℞ Rex Metallorum
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

Carefully excluding cases of unusual extension, or skill in using normal perceptive faculties, and also thought-transference, which, although bearing a certain relation to clairvoyance, should not be confounded with it, the phenomena of independent clairvoyance appear in certain persons under the following conditions:— In certain states, brought about by disease, and at the near approach of death, in the hypnotic
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

As we were descending from one of these ridges our attention was called to an unusual noise, proceeding from a copse of low bushes on our right, at a few rods from [Pg 59] the path.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

He had, as Lady Staveley understood, no private fortune, and he belonged to a profession which he would not follow in the only way by which it was possible to earn an income by it.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

Let us now pause for a moment and consider how much is involved in the practice of making a sacrifice by fire, or otherwise, at the burial of any deceased chieftain or honoured man.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman