"Xxv" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... CANTO XXV. St. James examines Dante concerning Hope.—St. John appears,with a brightness so dazzling as to deprive Dante, for the time, ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri
... XXV. The most gifted people are not always the most favoured: a man with twelve legs can derive no benefit from ten of them ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... Germans reading my book. No one will be converted who has not independently begun to doubt about species. Is not Krohn (There are two papers by Aug. Krohn, one on the Cement Glands, and the other on the development of Cirripedes, 'Wiegmann's Archiv,' xxv. and xxvi. My father has remarked that he "blundered dreadfully about the cement glands," 'Autobiography.') a good fellow? I have long meant to write to him. He has been working at Cirripedes, and has detected two or three ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... refusing to let the people of God offer sacrifices where and in the manner the Lord desired it, what will be the punishments for those who, by a godless system of education, abolish religion? If God slew twenty-four thousand men of the Israelites for having fallen into fornication (Numb. xxv.), with what punishments will He visit those who add, to the sin of fornication and adultery, even the crime of child-murder! Numberless child-murders are committed daily in the land. Assuredly the voice of these innocent victims will cry to heaven for vengeance, ...
— Public School Education • Michael Mueller
... the first century is not surprising; because the Christians, if known at all, would be regarded as a Jewish sect, as in Acts xviii. 15; xxiii. 29; xxv. 19. In the third century they are both noticed and attacked. The inquiry therefore with regard to the silence about them, refers only to the ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
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