Already, in 1784, the Jews of Bordeaux had been accorded further concessions by Louis XVI; in 1776 all Portuguese Jews had been given religious liberty and the permission to inhabit all parts of the kingdom.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found hospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America, Nor literary success nor intellect; nor book for the book-shelf, But a few carols vibrating through the air I leave, For comrades and lovers.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Thence with Mr. Creed, whom I called at his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could not, it being morning, get to see the Archbishop’s hearse: so he and I walked over the fields to Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half an hour in Mary Overy’s Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, I believe, and has been a fine church.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

bon, bonne , qui a de la bonté; avantageux, favorable; crédule.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought not to have said, he was a poor creature.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Besides, a father confessor should be elderly, it is not at all the role for a young man.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

And, Whether this feeling be any thing but a firmer conception, or a faster hold, that we take of the object?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

“We were a very numerous family at that time my father, my mother, my uncle and aunt, my two brothers and four cousins; they were pretty little girls; I married the youngest.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

n tag hide-and-seek. pabuangbúang v [A] pretend to be a fool, crazy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In most cases the tragic error involves no conscious breach of right; in some ( e.g. that of Brutus or Othello) it is accompanied by a full conviction of right.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Boat expeditions of Bass and Flinders. Clarke.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

nor in his house hold conventicles, or illegal gatherings, or be present at any such in which the adherents of the above-mentioned heretics teach, baptize, and form conspiracies against the Holy Church and the general welfare…..
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The danger, is that the people deceived by a false cry of liberty, may be led to take sides with one party, and thus give the other a pretext for crushing them still more."
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

At the time of the revolution against the old Czar Nicholas, in 1917, there were immense stores in the warehouses of the Archangel district and the Archangel-Vologda Railway had been widened to standard gauge and many big American freight cars supplied to carry those supplies southward.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

Looseness of texture, therefore, or something which is the cause of that quality, is another circumstance which promotes the deposition of dew; but this third course resolves itself into the first, viz., the quality of resisting the passage of heat: for substances of loose texture "are precisely those which are best adapted for clothing, or for impeding the free passage of heat from the skin into the air, so as to allow their outer surfaces to be very cold, while they remain warm within;” and this last is, therefore, an induction (from fresh instances) simply corroborative of a former induction.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

This fact disposes once and for all of the Shakespeare myth, and I will now proceed to prove by a few contemporary evidences that the real author was Francis Bacon.
— from The Shakespeare Myth by Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

But even the fulfilment of this requirement has been rendered superfluous, now that it has long been a foregone conclusion that philosophy is pantheism, a system of identity, an All-one doctrine, and that the person therefore who might be unaware of this fact is treated either as merely unaware of a matter of common notoriety, or as prevaricating for a purpose.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If there is going to be a fight Captain Glovering will certainly want you; and you may have a chance to tackle Tom Topover."
— from Square and Compasses; Or, Building the House by Oliver Optic

The child's exercise with the two alphabets will be as follows: coprire s coprire ri coprire For English: place dis place re place
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori