"Modern" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 771-m. Eve signifies a serpent and life circulating through all Nature, 376-m. Eve's ternary name, added to Yod, gives Jehovah, Divine Tetragram, 771-m. Even numbers traced backwards ended in nothing, 618-l. Evidence of the Templar origin of modern Free Masonry, 820-l. Evil, a Principle of Evil assumed to account for the existence of, 277-u. Evil affects Deity's intellectual nature and man's moral responsibility, 684-m. Evil, all in the world is not, 214-u. Evil and Darkness synonymous because Darkness ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... of all this went forth into the world, and Atlanta Penitentiary, its warden, its guards, and its cooks shine in penal annals as the acme and ideal of modern humanitarian ideas upon the reclamation of convicts through gentleness and love, and ...
— The Subterranean Brotherhood • Julian Hawthorne
... ancestors. The richly carved roof, with its massive timbers and pillars supporting it; the old relics, in the shape of banners, helmets, swords, shields, and other implements of warfare, were arranged on every side. On each wing of the main building were spacious, modern rooms, occupied by the family as private apartments, viz: the drawing-room, dining-room, and ...
— Lady Rosamond's Secret - A Romance of Fredericton • Rebecca Agatha Armour
... Testimony and affidavits to the fact, which was never questioned, were duly gathered and laid before Washington. The deed was one of wanton barbarity, for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the annals of modern warfare. The authors of this brutal murder, to our shame be it said, were of American birth, but they were fighting for the crown and wore the British uniform. England, which for generations has deafened the world with paeans of praise for her own love of ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge
... their view of England. It is the great city of ships and sailors and all that appertains to the sea, and its 550,000 population are mainly employed in mercantile life and the myriad trades that serve the ship or deal in its cargo, for fifteen thousand to twenty thousand of the largest vessels of modern commerce will enter the Liverpool docks in a year, and its merchants own 7,000,000 tonnage. Fronting these docks on the Liverpool side of the Mersey is the great sea-wall, over five miles long, behind which are enclosed 400 acres of water-surface in the various ...
— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook
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