"Lvi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the miracle on the swine, and various instances of prayers or prophecies, in which, as in that of Noah's blessing and curse, words which seem the result of private feeling are expressly or virtually ascribed to a Divine suggestion (p. lvi). ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley
... we have no excuse for our sin of suffering devilish wolves to devour our youth in our country. "My watchmen," says the Lord, "are all dumb dogs, not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping, and loving dreams."—(Isa. lvi. 10.) Truly the curses and maledictions of all those who led a bad life, and were damned for want of a good Christian education, which we neglected to give them, will come down upon us! What shall we answer? "And he ...
— Public School Education • Michael Mueller
... brother. I feel the greatest respect for him as one of the most able naturalists living, and he has aided me in many ways with extraordinary kindness." See "Life and Letters," III., page 37; "Nature," October 7th, 1897, Volume LVI., page 546. -book by. -convert to Darwin's views. -Darwin's opinion of his book. -friendship with Darwin. -Hooker on. -letters to. -on Lord Morton's mare. -on mutual specialisation of insects and plants. -on prawns. -reference to letter from. -on sponges. -on Cassia and caterpillars ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin
... Akt des Forschers. Demnach blieb Waitz, bei der eigenen Arbeit wie bei jener der anderen, immer hoechst mistrauisch gegen jedes Resume, jede Definition, jedes abschliessende Wort.—SYBEL, Historische Zeitschrift, lvi. 484. Mit blosser Kritik wird darin nichts ausgerichtet, denn die ist nur eine Vorarbeit, welche da aufhoert wo die echte historische Kunst anfaengt.—LASAULX, ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... The autograph letter is in Massachusetts Archives, LVI. no. 142. The same volume contains a letter from Colonel Frye, of Massachusetts, in which he speaks of the forlorn condition in which Chaplain Weld reached the camp. Of Chaplain Crawford, he says that he came decently clothed, but without bed or blanket, till he, Frye, ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... LVI. Caesar's friends taking advantage of this, claimed some notice for Caesar also, who was fighting so many battles for the supremacy of Rome; they said that he deserved either another consulship, or to have a fresh period added to his command, during which no other should ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... Esdras iii. 20: "It turneth also every thought into jollity and mirth," {eis euokhian kai euphrosunen}. The whole passage is quoted by Athen. 504. Stob. "Fl." lvi. 17. ...
— The Symposium • Xenophon
... the powers of medicine: on the 29th he was seized with convulsions, which returned more violently on the 30th; and he expired on the evening of that day, in the fifty-fifth year of his age." Works, Vol. i, P. lvi-E. ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... Juvenal, 1802, 3rd ed. 1817.—215. Oxford: This constant satirising of the great English university in connection with the publisher's theory, doubtless grew out of a series of articles printed in the Magazine during the years '23 and '24, and which may be summarised by this notice in vol. lvi., p. 349: "In a few days will appear a series of Dialogues between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the new Commonsense Philosophy; in which the mechanical principles of matter and motion will be accurately contrasted with the theories of occult powers which are at present cherished ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... LVI. That, besides the institution of the courts of justice, as before recited, four other principal objects in the reformation of the affairs of Oude were expressly recommended to the Residents Middleton and Bristow, and must be understood to ...
— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
