He said he knew he had failed in history and he was born to be a disappointment to his parents and he was going home on the morning train; and it would be easier to be a carpenter than a minister, anyhow.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

On the contrary, he uses its language, and says nothing resembling the words of the prologue to the Jew of Malta : I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

AL Schincho baſsag baſsag ALa polpa de la gamba bitis ALa cauechia bolboL AL calcagnio tiochid Ala ſolla deL pie Lapa lapa AL horo balaoan AL argento pilla AL Laton concach AL fero butan Ale canne dolce tube AL cuchiaro gandan AL rizo bughax baras AL melle deghex ALa cera talho AL ſalle acin AL
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Your greatest students are commonly no better, silly, soft fellows in their outward behaviour, absurd, ridiculous to others, and no whit experienced in worldly business; they can measure the heavens, range over the world, teach others wisdom, and yet in bargains and contracts they are circumvented by every base tradesman.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With the Hindoo custom compare that which was done by Liber on the grave of Prosumnus ( Arnobius adverma Gentes , translated by Bryce and Campbell, T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh, pp. 252, 258), which is far too gross to be described here; and as regards the sanctity of a stone whose top had been anointed with oil, see first sentence of paragraph 89, ibid, page 81.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

The later is called Science; and is Conditionall; as when we know, that, If The Figure Showne Be A Circle, Then Any Straight Line Through The Centre Shall Divide It Into Two Equall Parts.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He is therefore perpetually haunted by a craving to acquire importance there, and he feels a petulant desire to be constantly obtruding his opinions upon the House.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When a religious scruple interfered here also, lest a dictator could not be appointed except by a consul, the augurs on being consulted removed that scruple.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

one had his knee contracted by the Rhumitism (whome is just mentioned above) another with a broken arm &c. to all of whome we administered much to the gratification of those pore wretches, we gave them Some eye water which I believe will render them more esential Sirvece than any other article in the Medical way which we had it in our power to bestow on them
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As for Mr Klinker, he is qualified to be a clerk to a parish—But I’ll say no more—Remember me to Saul—poor sole!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

As this avenue is approached, on the left stands a building that should be viewed with grateful respect by all conscientious tourists and their guides, since it is the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey maps.
— from Isle of Wight by A. R. Hope (Ascott Robert Hope) Moncrieff

2. As a primer is used by a child to acquire by degrees, principles and a spirit.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

There has never been a Christian there, and the people have never responded in any way.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

With a loud snap of his whip and a guttural “Whee-oop,” the cocchiere rounded the statue of John of the Black Bands, just missed the ancient book-stand immortalized by Browning in the Ring and the Book , and came to a sudden stop before the unpretentious entrance to the Biblioteca Laurenziana .
— from The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

There was a small telephone connecting the cabin with the Houssa guard, and he pressed the button and called the attention of Sergeant Abiboo to his need.
— from Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace

If a teacher hands back a composition to an American boy with the words “Well done,” the child understands perfectly that his instructor means well as compared with the work of his classmates.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

Lyon was of Irish birth, and came to America at the age of thirteen under an indenture for his passage money.
— from Vermont: A Study of Independence by Rowland Evans Robinson

The spot through which the travellers were riding, and which was a wide piece of forest ground, one might have supposed, from the nature of the scenery, to be as common to all lands as possible; but no such thing!
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Upon this funeral pyre was laid Beowulf's body and consumed to ashes.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

There is, and can be, no conflict between true religion and true science: true religion is revealed by God, while it is through true science that the mind of man “discovers the realities of things and becomes cognizant of their peculiarities and effects, and of the qualities and properties of beings” and “comprehendeth the abstract by the aid of the concrete”.
— from Extracts from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá and from the Letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice on Scholarship by Universal House of Justice