How much greater was their astonishment when they heard from above a ringing voice in English.
— from Frank Forester: A Story of the Dardanelles by Herbert Strang

The remains of the cult have been found in the Danube and Rhine valleys, in Eastern Gaul, and in Northern Italy, all Celtic regions, but it was carried everywhere by Roman cavalry recruited from the Celtic tribes.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

"While far from being expedient, we are firmly convinced, that the division of mankind into castes, one born to rule over the other, is in this case, as in all cases, an unqualified mischief; a source of perversion and demoralization, both to the favored class and to those at whose expense they are favored; producing none of the good which it is the custom to ascribe to it, and forming a bar, almost insuperable while it lasts, to any really vital improvement, either in the character or in the social condition of the human race."— Ibid. , 101.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

As the joy of a great success had found a representative voice in Ennius in the age when the State, relieved from all overwhelming danger, started on its career of foreign conquest, so it found as deep and true a voice in Virgil at the time when the relief, if not from as imminent a danger, yet certainly from a much longer strain of anxiety, left Rome free to consolidate her many conquests into a vast and orderly Empire.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

But where philosophy imaginatively abolishes existence in behalf of value, where art realizes value in existence, religion tends to control and to escape the environment which exists by means of the environment which is postulated.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The revolution had destroyed the last relics of that effete and abominable system, and it was an empire on new and modern lines which Napoleon had founded, a royalty voted into existence by a free people, not resting upon a nation of slaves.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

She was one of the first vessels of the kind on the Clyde, and was perhaps constructed for the ordinary wear and tear to which a river vessel is exposed, [pg 298] but certainly, at her age, should never have been allowed to leave Liverpool for Beaumaris in weather so bad that an American vessel which had been towed out that day had been compelled to return to port.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

By Day the most beautiful Garden and River View in Europe.
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

They went arm in arm to assure each other a little, for at first in their fright they were inclined to take every post and tree for a man in ambush, and to hear a recalling voice in every sound of cold wind and murmuring wave.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

It belongs to magistrates to teach morality, by practising it, by inciting to virtue, and repressing vice in every form.
— from Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'