It is remarkable that, about the time of our Saviour's coming into the world, all kinds of learning flourished to a very great degree, insomuch that nothing is more frequent in the mouths of many men, even such who pretend to read and to know, than an extravagant praise and opinion of the wisdom and virtue of the Gentile sages of those days, and likewise of those ancient philosophers who went before them, whose doctrines are left upon record either by themselves or other writers.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

In the year 1913 he was appointed lecturer upon railway economics in McGill University and sustains that relation to the present time.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

“Slack away and let us ride easy to the full scope.
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad

While taxes are levied upon real estate there are some kinds of property exempt from taxation, viz.:
— from Citizenship: A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell

It was a lonesome, unfrequented road especially after night.
— from The Actress' Daughter: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

But enough of this already, let us rather enquire how the Devil enters into the body of the possestt, to move it at his pleasure; this I think he cannot do as a meer Spirit, or by any never so strict Union with the Humane Soul, for in that case he is only a tempter or seducer; and nothing above humane strength can be done:
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Calef

It is remarkable that about the time of our Saviour’s coming into the world all kinds of learning flourished to a very great degree, insomuch that nothing is more frequent in the mouths of many men, even such who pretend to read and to know, than an extravagant praise and opinion of the wisdom and virtue of the Gentile sages of those days, and likewise of those ancient philosophers who went before them, whose doctrines are left upon record, either by themselves or other writers.
— from Three Prayers and Sermons by Jonathan Swift