Onias was elevated with this prediction, and wrote the following epistle to Ptolemy and Cleopatra: "Having done many and great things for you in the affairs of the war, by the assistance of God, and that in Celesyria and Phoenicia, I came at length with the Jews to Leontopolis, and to other places of your nation, where I found that the greatest part of your people had temples in an improper manner, and that on this account they bare ill-will one against another, which happens to the Egyptians by reason of the multitude of their temples, and the difference of opinions about Divine worship.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

This unity of its being in all its phenomena, this unchangeable constancy of the appearance of these, whenever, under the guidance of causality, the necessary conditions are present, is called a law of nature .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Green accordingly established his observatory at the landing place of the cable at Porthcurnow in Cornwall, and Lieut.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various

Another reason, more applicable to our author, is that he has been unfortunate to be a pioneer in Catholic American literature.
— from Down at Caxton's by William A. McDermott

Two of these rectangular stones are placed on one sole-stone; a hole is cut in the upper edge of each, and into the holes are placed iron clamps, and lead is poured in; they [Pg 516] are so placed on the sole-stones that they project a palm at the sides, and at the front the sole-stones project to the same extent; if rectangular stones are not available, bricks are laid in their place.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Paper in which a series of parallel lines are produced is called a “laid” paper.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

Black and orange are always pleasing in combination and look well on most papers.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

On Earth all atoms are composed of small heavy protons that are always positive in charge, and larger lighter electrons that are always negative.
— from Devil Crystals of Arret by Hal K. Wells

The plea of alien infidel as answer to a claim was actually pleaded in court as late as 1737.
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

Schimmel & Co. bring at present into commerce a liquid rose oil freed from stearoptene which can be highly recommended for finer alcoholic perfumes.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

Well, at Paris, I can at least amuse myself, while you go with Madame de Fischtaminel to the woods.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac