While England during this period was in constant political strife, yet rising slowly, like the spiral flight of an eagle, to heights of national greatness, intellectually it moved forward with bewildering rapidity.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

420 Thus held him ech of other wel apayed, That al the world ne mighte it bet amende; And, on the morwe, whan they were arayed, Ech to his owene nedes gan entende.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Thence they would carry away, each to his own neighbourhood, the spiritual treasure which they had so unexpectedly found.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

He could not, Himself, make a second self To be His mate; as well have made Himself: He would not make what He mislikes or slights, An eyesore to Him, or not worth His pains: 60 But did, in envy, listlessness or sport, Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be— Weaker in most points, stronger in a few, [263] Worthy, and yet mere playthings all the while, Things He admires and mocks too—that is it.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

He could not, Himself, make a second self To be His mate: as well have made Himself: He would not make what He mislikes or slights, 60 An eyesore to Him, or not worth His pains; But did, in envy, listlessness, or sport, Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be— Weaker in most points, stronger in a few, Worthy, and yet mere playthings all the while, Things
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

In this we are all agreed; we wish for the independence of justice, because justice alone ensures the happiness of nations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

A little later in the century, Verrazano, an Italian in charge of a French expedition which sailed along the coast of North America, entered the harbor of New York, sailed up the Hudson River and landed an expedition on Manhattan Island, where in 1524 a religious service, probably the Mass as Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix suggested, was celebrated.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Nick sat down by him and expressed the hope of not having upset him in the morning; but the old man, with fixed, enlarged eyes, took up their conversation exactly where they had left it.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

Thence they would carry away, each to his own neighbourhood, the spiritual treasure which they had so unexpectedly found."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

But now it seemed I never could be And never had been anywhere else; 'Twas home; one nationality We had, I and the birds that sang, One memory.
— from Last Poems by Edward Thomas

But in the case of psychology and ethics the harmlessness of natural metaphysics will be less certain.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He could not, Himself, make a second self To be His mate; as well have made Himself: He would not make what He mislikes or slights, An eyesore to Him, or not worth His pains: But did, in envy, listlessness or sport, Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be— Weaker in most points, stronger in a few, Worthy, and yet mere playthings all the while, Things He admires and mocks too,—that is it.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning