Among the ancient Egyptians, so much like the ancient Celts in their innate spirituality and clear conceptions of the invisible world, we find a parallel feast which fell on the seventeenth Athyr of the year.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

2. Subject to the above terms and conditions, the license granted here is perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright in the Work).
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

To pretend that Christianity was intended to stereotype existing forms of government and society, and protect them against change, is to reduce it to the level of Islamism or of Brahminism.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

They see in the serene space of sky armour gleam red through a cloud in the clear air, and ring clashing out.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

They are clean in their minds, frank in their manners, true in their friendships; in their behaviour they are honest and reliable.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

A silver medal which had been deposited under the old building was now transferred to a cavity in the foundation stone of its proposed successor.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Philosophy has obliged me in determining that so brave an action had been indecently placed in any other life than that of Cato; and that it only appertained to his to end so; notwithstanding, and according to reason, he commanded his son and the senators who accompanied him to take another course in their affairs: “Catoni, quum incredibilem natura tribuisset gravitatem, eamque ipse perpetue constantia roboravisset, semperque in proposito consilio permansisset, moriendum potius, quam tyranni vultus aspiciendus, erat.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Interpreter Of The Law Is The Judge Giving Sentence Viva Voce In Every Particular Case The Interpretation of the Law of Nature, is the Sentence of the Judge constituted by the Soveraign Authority, to heare and determine such controversies, as depend thereon; and consisteth in the application of the Law to the present case.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The relation between the two may be seen from the following arrangement: Two triangles are congruent if two sides and the included angle of the one are equal respectively to two sides and the included angle of the other.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Several times in the journey we stopped at a post-station to change our cattle, but the same brazen throat sufficed for all the threatening and encouragement that kept them A CASTLE IN THE AIR 197 at the top of their speed.
— from Castilian Days by John Hay

I have seen one of those animals continue in this agitated state, and her whole brood pinned down, as it were, to the ground for four hours together, whilst their formidable foe has taken its circuits, has mounted and hovered directly over their heads; at last upon his disappearing the parent changed her note and sent forth another cry, which in an instant gave life to the whole trembling tribe, and they all flocked round her with expressions of pleasure, as if conscious of their happy escape from danger.”
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst

In order to achieve consistency in the handling of the exhibits upon the printing of the testimony, those letters are not reproduced in the printed transcript.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Early in 1644, George Monk, then a colonel in the King’s service, was taken prisoner by Fairfax in his attack upon the army besieging Nantwich, in Cheshire.
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore

They are not, perhaps, very numerous, for they do not include the thousands of conquered spirits who in Dublin, as elsewhere, go to see The Girl from Kay’s , or when Mr. Tree is upon tour, The Girl from Prospero’s Island ; and the peasant in Ireland, as elsewhere, has not taken to the theatre, and can, I think, be moved through Gaelic only.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8) The Hour-glass. Cathleen ni Houlihan. The Golden Helmet. The Irish Dramatic Movement by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Thus thou responded to the call, east attracted to the lights of the Kingdom of the Lord of Manifest Signs, proclaimed the Truth and called in the Name of the Lord of the high heaven.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The amateur can imitate the Russian work, but never the work of the skilled spinner.
— from Metal Spinning by C. Tuells

"He turned his head involuntarily, and saw the stars of the night sky shining through a cleft in the vault overhead.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Relieved of official duties through a change in the administration, it was quite natural that Mr. Rockhill should return where his principal intellectual interests lay.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch