(But recent experiments and discoveries show that reconstruction of chemical theories as to the properties of the atom may happen.)
— from Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
This town has not forgotten, doubtless, how the Princes of Wurtemberg and Hohenlohe and the Emperor Alexander himself justified the burnings, pillage, violations, and numerous assassinations committed under their very eyes, not only by the Cossacks, but also by regularly enlisted and disciplined soldiers.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy
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