But let our readers picture our travels for themselves, or take the same journeys with Telemachus in their hand; and let us not suggest to them painful applications which the author himself avoids or makes in spite of himself.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am speaking of the things which in a state and government give not only health and salvation to the body, but law, or rather preservation of the law, in the soul; and, if I am not mistaken, this seems to be still wanting in our laws: we have still to see how we can implant in them this irreversible nature.
— from Laws by Plato

Their rear was again pressed by a herd of two hundred thousand, the most stupid and savage refuse of the people, who mingled with their devotion a brutal license of rapine, prostitution, and drunkenness.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Thomas Knowles, grocer, sometime mayor of London, by license of Reynold, prior of St. Bartholomew’s in Smithfield, and also of John Wakering, master of the hospital of St. Bartholomew, and his brethren, conveyed the waste of water at the cistern near to the common fountain and chapel of St. Nicholas (situate by the said hospital) to the gaols of Newgate, and Ludgate, for the relief of the prisoners.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Not all the cold, misery, and discomfort we had undergone, besides losing our rest, prevented us exclaiming at the fresh beauty of the verdure and trees, and the sweet smell of the thirsty earth as we emerged from our cavern.
— from Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton

Whereas the custom is here to wooe by Picture, And never see the substance: you are fair, And beauty draws temptations on; You know it, I would not live to see a willing grant From you, to one unworthy of your birth, Feature or fortune; yet there have been Ladies Of rank, proportion, and of means beyond you, That have prov'd this no miracle.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

The counting-house of an accomplished merchant is a school of method, where the great science may be learned of ranging particulars under generals, of bringing the different parts of a transaction together, and of showing, at one view, a long series of dealing and exchange.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

These collectanea may be lists of recently published books and articles, books received, or brief critical accounts of current publications.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

After the customary dance the people of Sinope, like the birds, go to bed with the sun, and a feeling came over us as if we were guilty of some degree of fastness , almost of dissipation, in not also being at home and in bed, like other respectable people, though it was little past eight o’clock.
— from Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes by Andrée Hope

[Pg 142] “The high, noble, and wellborn Lord William Benting, Lord of Rhoon, Pendreght, &c.” “Sir,—In the course of my constant love and pursuit of works of art, it has been my good fortune to meet with that scarce little work of Hans Holbein neatly engraved on wood, and which he himself had painted as large as life in fresco on the walls of Whitehall.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

A broad line of ruts; perhaps some Celtic track-way, two thousand years old, now matted over with firs; dangerous enough out on the open moor, when only masked by a line of higher and darker heath: but doubly dangerous now when masked by dark undergrowth.
— from Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

144 stands above class and party affiliations, III 145 f disintegration of, III 146 f League of Jewish Socialists , in London, II 223 League of Jewish Workingmen , see "Bund" League of Russian People , organization of Black Hundred, III 141 favors re-establishment of unlimited autocracy, III 149 secures pardon for pogrom makers, III 150 forms "Second Government," III 141 , 151 badge of, demonstratively worn by Nicholas II., III 151 See Black Hundred " Learned Jew " ( Uchony yevrey ), Russian title for Jewish Government expert, II 239 Lebensohn, Abraham Baer (called "Adam"), Hebrew poet, II 134 f prominent in Maskilim circle of Vilna, II 136 Lebensohn, Micah Joseph , son of former, Hebrew poet, II 226 Legal Profession , see Bar Leipsic , Russian-Jewish merchants visit fair of,
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

Mr. Barker, regardless of her frowns and struggles, would by no means relinquish her hand; but leading, or rather pulling her forwards, he went on with barbarous steadiness: “Dinah,” said he, “‘tis your own niece.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth