That it has the form of a perfect globe we learn from the name which has been uniformly given to it, as well as from numerous natural arguments.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

These four men were poor sailors, who had always been accustomed to danger and hardships, and to work for their living; do you think it would have been better for them to have been bred up gentlemen, that is, to do nothing, but to have other people wait upon them in everything?" "Why, to be sure," answered Tommy, "it was much better for them that they had been used to work, for that might enable them to contrive and do something to assist themselves, for, without doing a great deal, they must certainly all have perished."
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

“If you can tell me how to fix this boiler up, go to it.
— from The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice; Or, Solving a Wireless Mystery by Allen Chapman

But, under God, there is but one deliverance, and this is through justice.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

That a system of law should be built up governing the international relations of the States of the world, by which their differences should be adjusted by the orderly processes of legality, excluding as a method of adjustment the chaos of war, may be admitted.
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

Thanks be unto God, this is possible to us.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

And the two mothers, watching this adored son and daughter and rejoicing in their joy, sympathizing and admiring with that admiration which is most perfectly free from envy, did their knowledge of human nature and their past experience not suggest that which must make them tremble in regarding these two heedless young creatures, both children of one haughty race, bent upon gratifying that impulse of mutual attraction which was more than likely to have its source in animal obstinacy than in reasonable, human affection?
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

We have been less careful of respecting native opinion than before, more resolute to push on improvements, and the progress made in the last fifteen years in the material development of the country has been undoubtedly greater than in the previous fifty years.
— from India and Indian Engineering. Three lectures delivered at the Royal Engineer Institute, Chatham, in July 1872 by J. G. (Julius George) Medley