“My soul I commit and commend altogether to the mercy of God in Christ Jesus trusting through His merits and powerful mediation to be saved from that eternal punishment whereof I am deserving on account of my sins, and to inherit all that eternal life promised in the Gospel to all them that obey Him: even so, Lord Jesus.”
— from The Romance of Wills and Testaments by Edgar Vine Hall

The Queen was very much shocked at this incident, and the elder ladies about court who thought it ominous of a fatal year,—for already were movements hostile to monarchy becoming active,—considered the next month's omen of unpleasant significance too, when the fog in London, on the night of the anniversary of the Queen's birth-day, was so dense, that not a lump of the illuminations was visible through the mist.
— from Memoir of Queen Adelaide, Consort of King William IV. by Dr. (John) Doran

[9] CONTENTS For a detailed list of the tapestries catalogued herein see the subject and title index at the end of the volume PREFACE Page 5 INTRODUCTION 11 CATALOGUE 25 LIST OF WEAVERS 58 BIBLIOGRAPHY 59 SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX 61 ILLUSTRATIONS MAP Facing Page 16 Showing the principal centers of production of Gothic and early Renaissance tapestries TAPESTRIES The Annunciation Facing Page 24 The Chase 25 The Annunciation, the Nativity, and the Announcement to the Shepherds 26 Scenes from the Roman de la Rose 27 The Vintage 30 Entombment on Millefleurs 31 Millefleurs with Shepherds and the Shield of the Rigaut Family 32 Pastoral Scene 33 The Creation of the World 34 [10] Four Scenes from the Life of Christ 35 The Triumph of David 38 Two Pairs of Lovers 39 Hannibal Approaches Scipio to Sue for Peace 40 Cyrus Captures Astyages, His Grandfather 41 The Crucifixion 42 Grotesques 43 Triumph of Diana 46 The Niobides 47 Scene from the History of Cleopatra 48 Verdure 49 Verdure with Dancing Nymphs 50 The Conquest of Louis the Great 51 The Poisoning of a Spy 54 The Arms of France and Navarre 55
— from Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries by San Francisco Museum of Art

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the exceptions from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following: Scientific or professional experts to be employed in investigations specially authorized by Congress, but not to include any persons regularly employed in that Department nor any persons whose duties are not scientific or professional, and who are not experts in the particular line of scientific or professional inquiry in which they are to be employed.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison

If I look at a locomotive, and analyse its machinery, I act like a mechanic; if I study under the microscope the structure of infusoria, I practise biology; and yet the sight of the locomotive, the perception of the infusoria, are just facts of consciousness, and should belong to psychology, if one takes literally the above definition, which is so absolute that it absorbs the entire world into the science of the mind.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

Besides his readings in canon law, he studied with great devotion the Scriptures, and their interpretation, after the elaborate and highly artificial fashion of the day, dividing each text into a myriad of heads, and building up the most recondite argument on a single phrase with meanings spiritual, temporal, scholastic, and imaginary.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The interest excited by the stage, and the importance attached to everything connected with it, are greater in Germany than in any other part of Europe, not excepting France, or even Paris.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

Summary of 389 comparisons 96 Ball of a thumb 96 Results as to persistence 97 CHAPTER VII Evidential Value 100 Method of rough comparison 100 Chance against guessing a pattern 101 Number of independent elements in a print—squares respectively of one, six, and five ridge-intervals in side 101-103 Interpolation, three methods of 103-105 Local accidents inside square 107 Uncertainties outside it 109 Compound results 110 Effect of failure in one, two, or more prints 111 Final conclusions—Jezebel 112-113 CHAPTER VIII Peculiarities of the Digits 114 Frequency per cent of arches, loops, and whorls generally, and on the several digits 114-115 [Pg ix] Characteristic groups of digits 116-118 Relationships between the digits 119 Centesimal scale of relationship 124-126 Digits of same and of different names 130 CHAPTER IX Methods of Indexing 131 Use of an index 131 Method of few conspicuous differences in many fingers 131 Specimen index 133 Order in which the digits are noted 134 Examples of indexing 135 Effect of regarding slopes 135 Number of index-heads required for 100 sets in each of twelve different methods 136-138 i and o in forefingers only 138 List of commonest index-headings 140 Number of headings to 100 sets, according to the digits that are noted 142 Transitional cases; sub-classifications 143-144 Symbols for patterns 144 Storing cards 145 Number of entries under each head when only the first three fingers are noted 146 CHAPTER X Personal Identification 147 Printers and photographers 147 Use of means of identification to honest persons; in regard to criminals 148-149 Major Ferris, Mr. Tabor, N. Borneo 149-153 Best digits for registration purposes 153 [Pg x] Registration of criminals—M. Bertillon 154 Details of Bertillonage ; success attributed to it; a theoretic error 155-158 Verification on a small scale 158-162 Experiences in the United States 163 Body marks; teeth 165-166 Value of finger prints for search in a register 166 Identification by comparison 167 Remarks by M. Herbette 168 CHAPTER XI Heredity 170 Different opinions 170 Larger meaning of heredity 170 Connection between filial and fraternal relationships 171 Fraternity, a faulty word but the best available 171 A and B brothers 172 Test case of calculated randoms 173 Fraternities by double A. L. W. events 175 The C. standard patterns 177 Limitation of couplets in large fraternities 178 Test of accurate classification 179 Fraternities by double C. events 181 Centesimal scale applied 184 Twins 185 Children of like-patterned parents 187 Simple filial relationship 190 Influences of father and mother 190 CHAPTER XII Races and Classes 192 Data for races 192 [Pg xi]
— from Finger Prints by Francis Galton

Notwithstanding the wide space, to the extremest east and west, over which the name of Assassins (of whose origin more hereafter) has spread, and that in all the European languages it has obtained and preserved the same meaning as the word murderer , little has hitherto been made known, in consecutive order, or satisfactory representation, of their achievements and fortunes, of their religious or civil codes.
— from The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources by Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von

Hans Schmidt, quoted by Dr. Skinner, does so, and takes it as the earliest evidence of Jeremiah's opposition to Deuteronomy, and Dr. Skinner in his Chapter
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith