"Viii" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the first year's income; a tax which was paid to the crown upon entering any office, pension, or grant. It was introduced into the Indias by a law of 1632. See Recopilacion leyes de Indias, lib. viii, tit. xix. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 • Various
... Hans Menjago ("Die Ueberschaetzung der Physischen Reinheit," Geschlecht und Gesellschaft, vol. ii, Part VIII) "was originally valued as a sign of greater strength of will and firmness of character, and it marked a rise above primitive conditions. This purity was difficult to preserve in those unsure days; it was rare and unusual. From this rarity rose the superstition of supernatural ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... VIII. The Giorgionesque Spirit.—Giorgione created a demand which other painters were forced to supply at the risk of finding no favour. The older painters accommodated themselves as best they could. One of them indeed, turning ...
— The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance - Third Edition • Bernhard Berenson
... on the authority of Sulpicius Severus, ii. 37, and of Orosius, viii. 5, inclines to the opinion of those who extend the persecution to the provinces. Mosheim rather leans to that side on this much disputed question, (c. xxxv.) Neander takes the view of Gibbon, which is in general that of the most learned writers. ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... were deeply interested in that national quarrel, the principal object of which was, to prevent the union of the infant Queen Mary, with the son of the heretical Henry VIII. The Monks had called out their vassals, under an experienced leader. Many of themselves had taken arms, and marched to the field, under a banner representing a female, supposed to personify the Scottish Church, kneeling in the attitude of prayer, with the legend, Afflictae Sponsae ne obliviscaris. ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
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