And Hieronymus says, that when he descended to the shades below, he saw the soul of Hesiod bound to a brazen pillar, and gnashing its teeth; and that of Homer suspended from a tree, and snakes around it, as a punishment for the things that they had said of the Gods.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[Pg 163] anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of persecutors, and to say that we may persecute others because we are right, and that they must not persecute us because they are wrong, we must beware of admitting a principle of which we should resent as a gross injustice the application to ourselves.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

At Crokerton, near Warminster, hath been since the restauration (about 1665) a manufacture of felt making, as good, I thinke, as those of Colbec in France.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

He spoke to the troops, viewed all the parks, all the light batteries, and gave instructions to all the officers and gunners.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

I am greatly indebted to all the officers and overseers of the Penitentiary for their uniform courtesy and their valuable assistance in the prosecution of my work.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 46, January 1907) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

Quadra, the Commandant, visited both ships this day when he gave a general invitation to all the officers to his table.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various

These beasts always go in troops, and the oldest goes in front and the second in age remains the last, and thus they enclose the troop.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

Not to dwell too long, therefore, upon that part of my history, which I have only collected from oral tradition, I shall content myself with telling you, that Mohun and Hart now growing old, (for above thirty years before this time, they had severally borne the king's commission of major and captain in the civil wars,) and the younger actors, as Goodman, Clark, and others, being impatient to get into their parts, and growing intractable, the audiences too of both houses then falling off, the patentees of each, by the king's advice, (which, perhaps, amounted to a command,) united their interests, and both companies into one, exclusive of all others, in the year 1684.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

Far and wide, spread over all this broad land, running all along the way from the wild Atlantic to the mild Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, young, well-dressed boys and girls in thousands and tens of thousands may be seen wending their happy way to their own dearly beloved "Children's Church"—I mean their Sunday-School.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

"I have a very good suite of rooms on the second floor," said Maple; "quite as good, I think, as those on the first floor."
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I by James Henry Mapleson

"I say if you take away the property of one man and give it to a thousand, or if you take away the property of a million and give it to nineteen millions, you do not create national wealth by transferring it from the pockets of [191] honest industry to other people's pockets.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall