"Ix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all" (Eccles. viii. 14; ix. 11). It is this element of chance that threatens to make a mockery of effort, and sometimes seems to make life but a travesty. The terrible feature of Tennyson's description of Arthur's last, dim battle in the west is not the "crash of battle-axe on shattered ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler
... (Works, ix. 107) thus sums up his examination of second-sight:—'There is against it, the seeming analogy of things confusedly seen, and little understood; and for it, the indistinct cry of natural persuasion, which may be, perhaps, resolved at last into ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... IX. The Glosso-pharyngeal Nerve is comparatively seldom injured. When it is compressed by a tumour in the region of the medulla, there is interference with speech and deglutition, ulcers form on the tongue, and oedema of the glottis ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... (IX.) The story of Nebuchadnezzar's pride and its punishment (pp. 84, 85), and the interpretation of ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... Magazine of American History (I. p. 321). The whole legend of the city is well analyzed in the same magazine (I. p. 14) by Dr. De Costa under the title "The Lost City of New England." In another volume he recurs to the subject (IX. p. 168), and gives (IX. p. 200) a printed copy of David Ingram's narrative, from the original in the Bodleian Library. He also discusses the subject in Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History" (IV. ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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