He tells us that in the earlier years of the present century it was generally believed that a corpse could be detained for debt, and it was, in several instances in the West Riding, successfully carried out, the friends Subscribing on the spot in order to be enabled to pay their last respects to the dead.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
This sympathy with the general Positivist movement she showed by Subscribing regularly to Positivist objects, especially to the fund of the Central Organisation presided over by M. Laffitte, but she invariably refused all membership with the Positivist community.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Accordingly, while we are most ready to accept Transformism or Darwinism should we find solid reasons for doing so, we are bound, for the sake of Science, to demand unimpeachable proofs before Subscribing to doctrines which are made responsible for so much.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard