[148] Mrs. X, a cultured Irishwoman now living in County Dublin, who as a percipient fulfils all the exacting requirements which psychologists and pathologists would demand, tells me that very frequently she has had visions of fairy beings in Ireland, and her own classification and description of these fairy beings, chiefly according to their stature, are as follows:—‘Among the usually invisible races which I have seen in Ireland, I distinguish five classes.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

[ Contents ] Chapter X. A Century of Obscurity and Decline.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

But the ideas of the modifications of body are in God, in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind, or the human mind perceives those modifications (II. xii.), and consequently (II. xvi.)
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

[xxx] Another Charm against the Spectre Huntsman
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Astyages, in Xenophon, asks Cyrus to give an account of his last lesson; and thus it was, “A great boy in our school, having a little short cassock, by force took a longer from another that was not so tall as he, and gave him his own in exchange: whereupon I, being appointed judge of the controversy, gave judgment, that I thought it best each should keep the coat he had, for that they both of them were better fitted with that of one another than with their own: upon which my master told me, I had done ill, in that I had only considered the fitness of the garments, whereas I ought to have considered the justice of the thing, which required that no one should have anything forcibly taken from him that is his own.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This Tyrant from Mechuacam arrives at Xalisco , a Country abounding with People very fruitful, and the Glory of the Indians in this respect, that it had some Towns Seven Miles long; and among other Barbarisms equal to what you have read, which they acted here, this is not to be forgotten, that Women big with Child, were burthen'd with the Luggage of Wicked Christians, and being unable to go out their usual time, through extremity of Toil and Hunger, were necessitated to bring them forth in the High-wayes, which was the Death of many Infants.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Fifty thousand Moors are recorded to have fled to his protection from Valencia, and three hundred thousand from Seville, Xeres, and Cadiz.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

If the acts of Xenophon and Caesar had not far transcended their eloquence, I scarce believe they would ever have taken the pains to have written them; they made it their business to recommend not their speaking, but their doing.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Helvētiī, cum id, quod ipsī diēbus XX aegerrimē cōnfēcerant, ut flūmen trānsīrent, illum ūnō diē fēcisse intellegerent, lēgātōs mittunt , 1, 13, 2, when the Helvetians learned that the Roman commander had done in a single day what they had found it hard themselves to do in twenty, namely cross the river, they sent deputies ( 1752 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“More than His Match.” Buffalo and Rhinoceros. X.— “A Critical Moment.” Spotted Deer and Leopard.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

A SOLEMN PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE X. A CALAMITOUS CONFERENCE XI.
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

[55] In the Persæ, a tragedy written to celebrate the overthrow of Xerxes, and containing a magnificent description of the battle of Salamis, of which the poet was an eye-witness, having served in all the brilliant actions of the Persian war, from Marathon to Platæa.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Ptolemy X and Cleopatra VI, 47.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

(back) Footnote 46: Ib. , p. xxi.; a copy of the latter, which Dyce could not find, is in Brit.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

section CHAPTER XII A curious religion—Burying the dead, and some graveyards—Dancers and music—Native artists, and how fire is made.
— from The Savage South Seas by E. Way (Ernest Way) Elkington

The Regatta 253 XXX A Close Finish 266 XXXI
— from The Eight-Oared Victors: A Story of College Water Sports by Lester Chadwick

232 CHAPTER XIII Agatha came out to the driveway to stop the buckboard and deliver the notes.
— from Penny of Top Hill Trail by Belle Kanaris Maniates

[Footnote 44: Following Plato and Xenophon and Cicero, Varro cast his books into the form of dialogues to make them entertaining ("and what is the use of a book," thought Alice in Wonderland, "without pictures or conversations.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato