Thus Charles Francis Adams, referring to the race problem in an address at Richmond, Virginia, in November, 1908, said: The American system, as we know, was founded on the assumed basis of a common humanity, that is, absence of absolutely fundamental racial characteristics was accepted as an established truth.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There, too, the dowager countess is always a regular visitor; indeed, Nell and she are very seldom apart, for, if the countess could tear herself away from Nell, she certainly could not leave the baby son and heir, who is as often in her arms as in his mother's.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

That humbleness of mind is a rare virtue is not to be wondered at, for every Christian grace is a rarity.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

There is but one way, and that is to conduct a campaign of such enthusiasm, of such daring and revolutionary violence if need be, that the little henchmen and sycophants of the Dispensers of the National Poor Funds will be awed into silence.
— from The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

An artificial colouring for wine, known as rouge végétale , is not uncommonly employed.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

A ship on a return voyage is not generally liable; but if she sailed on the outward voyage under false papers, the liability to confiscation continues.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

From this we see that a due amount of sleep, under favourable circumstances as regards ventilation, is necessary both for brain and muscle; and that, in fact, unless it be forthcoming, there will be an inability for either brain worker or muscle user to properly fulfil his duties next day.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

This improved sentiment as regards veracity is, no doubt, partly due to the realisation of its importance and of the inconveniences which result from the breaches of it, especially in commercial affairs, by the members of a community at large; but it must also, to a great extent, have been produced by the definite teaching conveyed in books, and by moral and religious instructors.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

She was the daughter of Amos White, an English curate, living in a remote village in Northumberland, and of his first wife, who had died during the infancy of her youngest child, Ann, a year after which her father had married again.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Choose, then, your party, PHILO, without ambiguity or evasion; assert either that a rational volume is no proof of a rational cause, or admit of a similar cause to all the works of nature.
— from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

With a rueful visage I now bethought me of the scanty handful of bread I had stuffed into the bosom of my frock, and felt somewhat desirous to ascertain what part of it had weathered the rather rough usage it had experienced in ascending the mountain.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville