"Xxxvii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Stanza XXXVII. line 1125. There is now a font of stone with a drinking cup, and an inscription on the back of the font ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott
... Nericat, who instructed me in Persian, there is a popular belief that arolites chiefly fall on clear moonlight nights. The ancients, on the contrary, especially looked for their fall during lunar eclipses. (See Pliny, xxxvii., 10, p. 164. Solinus, c. 37. Salm., 'Exere.', p. 531; and the passages collected by Ukert, in his 'Geogr. der Griechen und Rmer', th. ii., 1, s. 131, note 14.) On the improbability that meteoric masses are formed from metal-dissolving gases, which, according to Fusinieri, may exist in the highest ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... things which have a cause in man are found among men at all times. Now idolatry was not always, but is stated [*Peter Comestor, Hist. Genes. xxxvii, xl] to have been originated either by Nimrod, who is related to have forced men to worship fire, or by Ninus, who caused the statue of his father Bel to be worshiped. Among the Greeks, as related by Isidore (Etym. viii, 11), Prometheus was the first ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... Bridegroom, but He does not heed her, at least not perceptibly, though He sustains her with an invisible hand. Sometimes she tries to do better, but then she becomes worse; for the design of her Bridegroom in letting her fall without wounding herself (Ps. xxxvii. 24) is that she should lean no longer on herself; that she should recognise her helplessness; that she should sink into complete self-despair; and that she should say, "My soul chooseth death rather than life" (Job vii. 15). It is here that the soul begins truly to hate itself ...
— Spiritual Torrents • Jeanne Marie Bouvires de la Mot Guyon
... Innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, For that shall bring a man peace at the last. Psalm XXXVII. 38. ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield
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