"The Greek church, and a good part of Christendom besides, never received your service in an unknown tongue, but in their own natural language, which all the people understand; neither your transubstantiation, your receiving in one kind, your purgatory, your images, &c. "As for the unity which is in your church, what is it but treason, murder, poisoning one another, idolatry, superstition, and wickedness?
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
Aquí no vienen casi nunca soldados de los Madriles; cuando han estado, 10 todos los días corría la sangre, porque Caballuco les buscaba camorra por un no y por un sí.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
¡Ay! querido hermano, desde que mi hija sepa discurrir y pronunciar un nombre, yo le enseñaré a bendecir el tuyo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men; when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
The siege was raised, and D'Estaing sailed at once for France, not only giving up his project upon New York, but abandoning the Southern States to the enemy.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
( A Pluralistic Universe , New York, 1909, p. 309.)
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
I thought not to see you and Pat until next year in Paris but from Buenos Aires I decided suddenly I will go to New York.
— from The Boy Grew Older by Heywood Broun
“All these theories were upset last night when Mrs. Cleary gave me some details of a woman she had picked up near your church.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith
He hands me his card, "Mr. Inquisitor , Spring Gardens." Somerset House being absorbed, he says he "has just called to ascertain exactly what my income really is," and though I am perfectly civil (under pains and penalties of "civility bye-laws"), he tells me I must be "put up" next year.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 December 23rd, 1893 by Various
Then said the Master, "Without Propriety use not your eyes; without it use not your ears, nor your tongue, nor a limb of your body."
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian
I (1300-1403) BY HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS, Ph.D. SOMETIME FELLOW OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY NEW YORK
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Sims, Rev. W. P., Utica, N. Y. Found an affinity.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings
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