The long-vexed question as to the authorship of the latter parts of King Henry VI ., in their earlier or later form, has not been touched upon; nor do I design to reopen that perpetual source of debate unstanchable and inexhaustible dispute by any length of scrutiny or inquisition of detail.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is certain that the Rogerenes are under no difficulty in discerning from whence emanates the influence that has set this new persecution on foot and is continuing it to a crisis.]
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles
who has the beautiful and soothing Southern genius for doing the most comfortable thing for the moment, regardless of consequences, the Infant for months after will expect to be sung to sleep, my hand cuddled against her cheek, until I develop laryngitis from continued vocal struggles with 'Ole Uncle Ned,' 'Down in de Cane Brake,' and 'De Possum and de Coon.'
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright
"There is no use, Nancy dear, in dragging it around from house to house, and I'm having it sent to your new one." Accordingly, when the expressman announced its arrival everyone proceeded to the little colonial house in Tutors' Lane.
— from Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis
Let us now discuss, in detail, those particulars of which it is the duty of a woman to be well informed.
— from Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
by that one way my heart might be undone: No death I dread, no God that is, in battle would I spare.
— from The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse by Virgil
Nine external points of the Tetractys form the Masonic triangle, 826-m Nine found in the three Fates, Centimanes, Cyclopes, 728-l. Nine: singular properties of the number, 637-l. Nine, square of three, represented by the triple triangle, 60-l. Nine symbolized the earth under the influence of the Evil principle, 636-l. Nine symbolizes the generative egg, 636-l. Nine, the first square of unequal numbers, the Ennead, 636-l. Nineteenth Degree, Grand Pontiff, 312-u. Ninth day of Greek Mysteries, the libation for departed souls, 434-m. Ninth Degree, Elu of the Nine, purpose and lessons of the, 149-u. Ninth Degree is devoted to—, 159-u. Ninth envelope, a term given to matter, 636-u.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Nec discessi umquam nec Deo iuvante discedam ab agnita semel veritate.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
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