And I implore him, should this little book ever come into his hands, in the name of that love which he once bore me, to conceal that which, if disclosed, would turn neither to his profit nor honor.

The sortes Homericae and sortes Virgilianae which succeeded the sortes Praenestinae, gave rise to the same means used among christians of casually opening the sacred books for directions in important circumstances; to learn the consequence of events and what they had to fear among their rulers.

If he really does bump into a rock he cuts in an arithmetic book for his latitude and longitude and lets it go at that.

Read the essay, Leonardo da Vinci (Dickinson and Roe's Nineteenth Century Prose, pp. 338-368), from Pater's "golden book," The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Literature.

The Georgicks did not give me so much pleasure, except the fourth book.

The first satire of the fifth book is levelled at Racking Landlords.

I had a little study or smoking-room of my own, in which all my special treasures were, the collections of my travels and my favorite books,and where I always sat after prayers, a ceremonial which was regularly kept up in the house.

His True Christian Morals is a very valuable book, notwithstanding the obscurity that sometimes arises in that, as in all his writings, from his fondness for Latin words.

"I have some thoughts," she says, "of increasing by degrees my plan for Sunday evening, and of having several poor children, at least, to read in the Testament and religious books for an hour.

She puts into my hand her holy book of heavenly language, and asks me to read its words before God, to unite with the angels and saints in honouring God.

She supplied him with standard books, which formed the nucleus of an excellent library, and advised him in his studies.

Special thanks to Mike Greene and the Little Greene Schoolhouse (http://www.users.nac.net/mgreene/HomerGreeneMuseum.html) for supplying missing pages for this rare book.

The original is to be found in the third act of the "Duchess of Malfi," in the magnificent scene where the privacy of the wedded lovers is invaded by Ferdinand; in whose mouth the apologue transferred or "conveyed" by Lamb into the quaint and delightful little book over the recovery of which all the hearts of his lovers are yet warm with rejoicing, has a tragic and terrible significance.

Norman Angell, an English writer, has recently stirred all thinking people by a remarkable book of protest against Militarism.

It was the work of an old fellow called Thomas à Kempis, and though more practical books of piety have since been written, the idea contained in the title suggests a great lesson, and held up before Joachim's eyes, Him whom one of our own divines has since called "The Great Exemplar.

If of any scientific book it can be said that its appearance was "epoch-making" it is true of Darwin's work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.

He has written this work about the X Ray in his usual clear and simple style, and a wide circulation of this useful book is assured.

John Maynard Keynes, ever since the end of 1919, has shown in his admirable book the absurdity of asking for vast indemnities, Germany's impossibility of paying them, and the risk for all Europe of following a road leading to ruin, thus at the same time accentuating the work of disintegration started by the treaty.

Nor was Tacitus himself, who generally appears superior to superstition, untainted with this folly, as may be seen from his twenty-second chapter of the sixth book of his Annals.

In the concluding stanza of the last completed canto, beginning Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, on the horizon's verge we have a condensation of the refrain of the poet's philosophy; but the main drift of the later books is a satire on London society.

(In Big-book western, June-July 1938)

There are always a few students praying in the chapel, while others sit in the doors of the upper rooms, their books on their knees, or lean over the carved galleries chatting with their companions who are washing their feet at the marble fountain in the court, preparatory to entering the chapel.

Isaiah was his favourite book.

Here again there is no evidence that Mr. Laing has read any elementary text-book on the authenticity of the Gospels.

The fire engine book; a photographic picture book with a story.