Mr Allworthy himself spoke to the captain in his brother's behalf, and desired to know what offence the doctor had committed; when the hard-hearted villain had the baseness to say that he should never forgive him for the injury which he had endeavoured to do him in his favour; which, he said, he had pumped out of him, and was such a cruelty that it ought not to be forgiven.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Mademoiselle Thuillier had too often heard her brother remark: “Such a one is dead; he only survived his retirement two years”; she had too often heard Colleville, her brother’s intimate friend, a government employee like himself, say, jesting on this climacteric of bureaucrats, “We shall all come to it, ourselves,” not to appreciate the danger her brother was running.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"I do not give you all this dogmatically, but I cannot myself see that Free Trade will produce any other results; and I look upon it as certain, that if other nations do not adopt our Free Trade notions, that we cannot put them in practice without destroying the National Debt: in other words, a fatal struggle between the landed and moneyed interest.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various

Or, investigating to see whether I am capable of recognizing the truth, shall I seriously become a sceptic till I am convinced that I ought not to be such?
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Divided into small settlements, they yet were bound together by language and customs, and cherished the idea of national unity.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Ney’s object was to crush and cow the insurgents of Northern Galicia by the constant movement of flying columns, which marched out from the towns when his brigades were established, and made descents on every district where the peasantry had assembled in strength.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

A Abraham & Straus, 76 ff Abram, Morris B., 171 Abrams, Frank W., 170 Abrams, Henry H., 149 Acheson, Dean, 105 ; 118 ACTION, 101 ADA, 146 ff Adams, Grantley H., 20 Adenauer, Konrad, 143 ADVERTISING COUNCIL, 91 ; 95 ; 97 - 102 ; 174 ; Public Policy Committee, 99 ; Mental Health project, 101 ; support of UN, 102 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON POSTWAR FOREIGN POLICY, 5 AFL-CIO, 56 ; 100 ; 130 AFRICA, 105 Agar, Herbert, 155 Agger, Donald G., 123 Air-Vue Products Corp., 92 Alabama Power Company, 91 Alanbrooke, Field-Marshal, 30 ALDRICH COMMISSION, 54 Aldrich, Malcolm P., 171 Aldrich, Winthrop W., 84 Alexander, Henry C., 170 Allen, James L., 76 Allen, Steve, 148 Allen, William M., 84 Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., 85 Allyn, Stanley C., 85 ; 125 ; 152 Altschul, Frank, 64 ; 140 ; 142 Aluminum Limited, Inc., 14 ; 63 American Airlines, 93 AMERICAN ASSEMBLY, 100 ; 144 ff AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE UNITED NATIONS, 126 ff; 173 American Can Company, 14 American Central Insurance Co., 91 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, 142 AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA, 151 AMERICAN COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS (ACTION), 101 American Express, 76 AMERICAN FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, 56 ff AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, 47 American Heavy Minerals Corp., 95 American Heritage , 157 AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 87 AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE,
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

As Christians this is our nature.
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr