From the same reason there are no more than thirteen or seventeen families.—These names cannot meanwhile be so strictly adopted, because the classes are not of equal rank, as has been observed; on this account it is necessary to shove in here and there other divisions, which should be termed at one time Cohorts , at another, Alliances .
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

Yet everyone need not enter into theological discussions; and persons whose condition allows not of exact researches should be content with instruction on faith, without being disturbed by the objections; and if some exceeding great difficulty should happen to strike them, it is permitted to them to avert the mind from it, offering to God a sacrifice of their curiosity: for when one is assured of a truth one has no need to listen to the objections.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

A while ago I had been mentally composing a number of effective retorts upon Captain Branscome for his tyrannical behaviour.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Scattered all over the face of the country are numbers of enormous rocks of every conceivable shape, sometimes lying in solitary state, at other places grouped in twos and threes side by side, and yet again lying one on the top of the other, often the larger one on top.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

Indeed, this issue contains a number of extremely rare dies, and as soon as proper information and classification is published, the 3 cent rose of 1864 will be a favorite of all true philatelists.
— from The Die Varieties of the Nesbitt Series of United States Envelopes by Victor Maximilian Berthold

He could not but admire the splendid harbour, in which a couple of British cruisers were lying at anchor; he climbed up to the old dismantled Portuguese fort, and examined every nook and cranny of it; he strolled about through the narrow, twisted streets, finding much to interest him at every step--grave Arab booth-keepers, sleek and wily Persians, lank Indian coolies, and negroes of every race and size in every variety of undress.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

In 1799 Thomas Cooper, a native of England, residing at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, published a handbill reflecting severely on the conduct of President Adams.
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

The clause he came , and the clause when he was called , are not of equal rank and importance, because the clause, when he was called , simply modifies the verb contained in the clause he came , by describing the time of the action expressed in the verb came .
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

But the spiritual region was matter of conscience, and not of external regulation.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison