As God is the beginning and end of all things, so the first and chief love of man is due to him.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

It is a glaring instance of the bad effects of a plurality of wives; and being contrary to our constitutional laws of marriage, I declined giving an opinion as to who was right or wrong.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

Headache is common, loss of memory is distressing, and in severe cases it is wider and deeper than mere inattention can explain.
— from Disease and Its Causes by W. T. (William Thomas) Councilman

Its realm lies in the common lot of men; its distinction is to embrace truth for all, and truth in its universal forms of experience and personality, the primary, elementary, equally shared fates, passions, beliefs of the race.
— from Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry

[57] The C. lancifolia of Mutis is dispersed in wild inacces
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

This is marked by a certain change in George Eliot; as it is marked by a certain limitation or moderation in Dickens.
— from The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

For guided by the experience of the past four years (the culmination of fifty years' experience), and noting without fear the facts which that experience has revealed as in the clear light of midday, it declares that slavery is inconsistent with the existence of the Union.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various