310 Syed Ameer Ali also expresses the opinion that "Makrisi's account of the different degrees of initiation adopted in this lodge forms an invaluable record of Free masonry.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

"—Evolution by mechanism.—Evolution by ideal attraction.—If species are evolved they cannot guide evolution.—Intrusion of optimism.—Evolution according to Hegel.—The conservative interpretation.—The radical one.—Megalomania.—Chaos in the theory of mind.—Origin of self-consciousness.—The notion of spirit.—The notion of sense.—Competition between the two.—The rise of scepticism Pages 95 - 125 CHAPTER V PSYCHOLOGY Mind reading not science.—Experience a reconstruction.—The honest art of education.—Arbitrary readings of the mind.—Human nature appealed to rather than described.—Dialectic in psychology.—Spinoza on the passions.—A principle of estimation cannot govern events.—Scientific psychology a part of biology.—Confused attempt to detach the psychic element.—Differentia of the psychic.—Approach to irrelevant sentience.—Perception represents things in their practical relation to the body.—Mind the existence in which form becomes actual.—Attempt at idealistic physics.—Association not efficient.—- It describes coincidences.—Understanding is based on instinct and expressed in dialectic.—Suggestion a fancy name for automatism, and will another.—Double attachment of mind to nature.—Is the subject-matter of psychology absolute being?—Sentience is representable only in fancy.—The conditions and objects of sentience, which are not sentience, are also real.—Mind knowable and important in so far as it represents other things
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

To prove, then, the possibility of experience so far as it rests upon pure concepts of the understanding a priori , we must first represent what belongs to judgments in general and the various functions of the understanding, in a complete table.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Then all together They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence, And in a dark and dankish vault at home There left me and my man, both bound together; Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom, and immediately Ran hither to your Grace; whom I beseech To give me ample satisfaction For these deep shames and great indignities.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A second later they were rolling, splashing and bobbing about in the water, the horse struggling frantically to find a rest for its feet and its riders being first plunged beneath the rapid current and then floating upon the surface like corks.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

fullness, abundance, immensity, Ro. 11.33.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It was fastened; and, I remember, that accursed Earnshaw and my wife opposed my entrance.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!" Father and I returned to Bareilly soon after the crematory rites for the well-beloved.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections upon the course of the day: a cleaner sensation when awaking after a fresher sleep since matutinal noises, premonitions and perturbations, a clattered milkcan, a postman’s double knock, a paper read, reread while lathering, relathering the same spot, a shock, a shoot, with thought of aught he sought though fraught with nought might cause a faster rate of shaving and a nick on which incision plaster with precision cut and humected and applied adhered: which was to be done.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

From where they sat they could not see the shore for an intervening ridge.
— from Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham

With summer came the fever, and it ravaged through the band, laying low the infant and the counsellor.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 06 : Central States and Great Lakes by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

Indeed, as far as I remember, nowhere in history are hitherto recorded so many low persons who, from obscurity and meanness, have suddenly and at once attained rank and notoriety.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

At the same moment a shell burst on the other side of the crater, flinging an iron rain into the already terrified [Pg 263] mob, and half burying a man who had been descending into the pit.
— from With Haig on the Somme by D. H. Parry

And chiefly and continually she complained of past guilt and present sin, by reason of which she felt as if 'remission of sins in Christ Jesus pertained nothing to her.'
— from John Knox by A. Taylor (Alexander Taylor) Innes

“Are you hurt, Ranulph?” “No, but my fingers are in rags.
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker

BRITLING SEES IT THROUGH THE SOUL OF A BISHOP The following fantastic and imaginative romances: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS THE TIME
— from In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Had this tumult ended here, I should probably have been in my chair at the college today; and the whole affair, so far as it related only to myself, would have been regarded by me as merely a bit of an episode in my life—of course a most exciting one.
— from The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. by Allen, William G., active 1849-1853

Composed as the Warden was, he looked at Bingham with something of eager attention on his face, as if relying on him for support and conversation.
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

“Find anything?” inquired Rhoda impatiently.
— from The Wishing Well by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt