CHAPTER XVI Of the lands of Albania and of Libia .
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

XII OF THE LOVE AND HATRED OF ANIMALS
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Such families know nothing of political events, although they are discussed at table; for changes in the Government take place at such a distance from them that they are spoken of as one speaks of a historical event, such as the death of Louis XVI or the landing of Napoleon.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

To each of these parts (as well as to Book x. of the Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa ) a successive list ( vaṃça ) of teachers is attached.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

CHAPTER XIX Of the exercises of a religious man The life of a Christian ought to be adorned with all virtues, that he may be inwardly what he outwardly appeareth unto men.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

" XI Of the Passing of the First-Born O sister, sister, thy first-begotten, The hands that cling and the feet that follow, The voice of the child's blood crying yet, WHO HATH REMEMBERED ME?
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

CHAPTER XIX — THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPY IS TO LEARN TO DIE CHAPTER XX — OF THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION CHAPTER XXI — THAT THE PROFIT OF ONE MAN IS THE DAMAGE OF ANOTHER CHAPTER XXII — OF CUSTOM; WE SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED CHAPTER XXIII — VARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL CHAPTER XXIV — OF PEDANTRY CHAPTER XXV — OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN CHAPTER XXVI — FOLLY TO MEASURE TRUTH AND ERROR BY OUR OWN CAPACITY CHAPTER XXVII — OF FRIENDSHIP CHAPTER XXVIII —
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Of the Sons of Master and Man X. Of the Faith of the Fathers XI.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

To this meaning I shall recur in the concluding chapters ( xiii. and xiv. ) of this Book; in which I shall discuss more fully the intuitive character of these hedonistic principles.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont (where it is only two or three miles wide.)
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In the Bible, chapter xlii of the book of Genesis, we are told that Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in vestures of fine linen.
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

Most [xxiii] of them, however, are incorporated in it, and are only repeated here to preserve the integrity of the manuscript.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

No. XXXVI of The Microcosm is a letter from Capel Lofft defending the "Middle Style" of Addison in contrast to the more modern Johnsonian eloquence.
— from Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning by George Canning

[1536] (Cap. XIV. of the ‘Cosmographie’).
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

Syntax of subjunctives 454 CHAPTER XX. ON THE TENSES.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

CHAPTER XXV OF THE COACHMAN'S STORY Long before the lights of the "White Lion" had vanished behind them, the guard blows a sudden fanfare on the horn, such a blast as goes echoing merrily far and wide, and brings folk running to open doors and lighted windows to catch a glimpse of the London Mail ere it vanishes into the night; and so, almost while the cheery notes ring upon the air, Tenterden is behind them, and they are bowling along the highway into the open country beyond.
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

The position of the true meridian may be found as follows ( Fig. 17 ): Point the hour hand of a watch toward the sun; the line joining the pivot and the point midway between the hour hand and XII on the dial, will point toward the south; that is to say, if the observer stands so as to face the sun and the XII on the dial, he will be looking south.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

CHAPTER XXVIII ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD
— from The Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea by Alfred Ollivant

A weight x of the substance is dissolved in a litre of water, and the lowering of the freezing point is observed.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc