The Authorized Version of the Four Gospels , with the whole of the magnificent Etchings on Steel, after drawings by M. Bida , in 4 vols., appropriately bound in cloth extra, price 3 l. 3 s. each.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

True, it is illegal to buy or mortgage peasants without land, but I can easily pretend to be buying them only for transferment elsewhere.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Before I could enter protest or excuse, he was already rattling glibly away at his benevolent work; and when I perceived that he was misnaming the things, and inhospitably amusing himself at the expense of an innocent stranger from a far country, I held my peace, and let him have his way.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It seems impossible, that the council, with the best intentions, can ever proportion, with tolerable exactness, either of these two assessments to the real abilities of the province or district upon which they are respectively laid.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

At last he comes to that, he will have those saved that never heard of, or believed in Christ, ex puris naturalibus , with the Pelagians, and proves it out of Origen and others.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

That in my opinion no one Without breaking it could ever Pass across.
— from The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Wide as the difference may be in certain essential points between Christianity and Judaism, yet the former approaches the latter through its origin, and a common basis which is love of God and man.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

But before I can even put our case—our Concession's case—before you, you commence by insulting me and making a lying statement about my wife—and you probably now intend threatening me by an attack with your Askari[#]—who I see are gathering up behind you."
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

Jessie soon recovered command of herself, but I could easily perceive, that her tranquil demeanour was artificial and assumed—altogether unlike her natural bearing, when I knew her on the banks of the Yarra Yarra.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

Japan: revenues: $441 billion expenditures: $718 billion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $84 billion (FY01/02 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

_#_GNP: $2,115.2 billion, per capita $17,100; real growth rate 5.6% (1990) _#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.1% (1990) _#_Unemployment rate: 2.1% (1990) _#_Budget: revenues $499 billion; expenditures $532 billion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of $52 billion (FY90) _#_Exports: $286.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990); commodities—manufactures 97% (including machinery 38%, motor vehicles 17%, consumer electronics 10%); partners—US 31%, Southeast Asia 29%, Western Europe 21%, Communist countries 3%, Middle East 3% _#_Imports: $234.7 billion (c.i.f., 1990); commodities—manufactures 50%, fossil fuels 24%, foodstuffs and raw materials 26%; partners—Southeast Asia 23%, US 23%, Western Europe 18%, Middle East 13%, Communist countries 7% _#_External debt: $NA _#_Industrial production: growth rate 4.6% (1990 est.); accounts for 30% of GDP (mining and manufacturing) _#_Electricity: 191,000,000 kW capacity; 790,000 million kWh produced, 6,390 kWh per capita (1989) _#_Industries: metallurgy, engineering, electrical and electronic, textiles, chemicals, automobiles, fishing, telecommunications _#_Agriculture: accounts for only 2% of GNP; highly subsidized and protected sector, with crop yields among highest in world; principal crops—rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; animal products include pork, poultry, dairy and eggs; about 50% self-sufficient in food production; shortages of wheat, corn, soybeans; world's largest fish catch of 11.9 million metric tons in 1988 _#_Economic aid: donor—ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $83.2 billion; ODA outlay of $7.9 billion in 1989 _#_Currency: yen (plural—yen); 1 yen (3) = 100 sen _#_Exchange rates: yen (3) per US$1—133.88 (January 1991), 144.79 (1990), 137.96 (1989), 128.15 (1988), 144.64 (1987), 168.52 (1986), 238.54 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

We must interpret each text by its context, each part by the whole, the preparation of salvation by the fulfilment, and all the diverse contents by him who weaves all together, even Christ, the end of the law, to whom all the preliminaries point.
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong

If no tax whatever had been laid on the land, and the same sum had been raised by any other means, agriculture would have flourished at least as well as it has done; for it is impossible that any tax on land can be an encouragement to agriculture; a moderate tax may not, and probably does not, greatly prevent, but it cannot encourage production.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

But it cannot extend profitably.
— from Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight