But at present we are speaking of those beings whom he described as being properly intermediate between gods and men, in nature animals, in mind rational, in soul subject to [Pg 366] passion, in body aerial, in duration eternal.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But [89] when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may be expected, since I am upon this Subject, that I should take notice of Mr. Dryden's Definition of Wit; which, with all the Deference that is due to the Judgment of so great a Man, is not so properly a Definition of Wit, as of good writing in general.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

'That doctor, learned in physic and courtesy, affirms that the people among these lower hills are devout, generous, and much in need of a teacher.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Even before his gods, a man is not always in such a marked state of inferiority; for it very frequently happens that he exercises a veritable physical constraint upon them to obtain what he desires.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The loss of thy goods and money is no loss;
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The authority under which the received practices exist, is to be found in our manners, rather than in our laws: they have their origin 270 in natural sentiments of public decency and private affection; they are ratified by common usage and consent; and being attached to a subject of the gravest and most impressive nature, remain unaltered by private caprice and fancy, amidst all the giddy revolutions that are perpetually varying the modes and fashions that belong to the lighter circumstances of human life.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Personally, I think the Germans are more in need of prayers at all times because of the damnable way they act.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

“The original Hebrew, with the exception of a few fragments in the Gemaras and Midrashim, is no longer extant, but we have translations in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

Then away go the dogs, and away goes Timby, and, strange as it may seem in rabbit-coursing, Timby would gain as many, if not more, points than the terriers.
— from The Domestic Cat by Gordon Stables

However, the disorders were not of that violent kind which preceded Mr. Hastings's departure, nor such as followed his return: no mercenary wars, no mercenary revolutions, no extirpation of nations, no violent convulsions in the revenue, no subversion of ancient houses, no general sales of any descriptions of men,—none of these, but certainly such grievances as made it necessary for the Company to send out another commission in 1769, with instructions pointing out the chief abuses.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They are subdivided in three groups, ( a ) manors in Norfolk and Suffolk, ( b ) manors in Wiltshire and Dorsetshire (one), and ( c ) manors in other southern and eastern counties, but including one in Staffordshire and one in Lancashire.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney