[pg 180] Being an excellent youth, and most worthy of the name and office of a king, he was by his father elevated to the throne of that nation, and came to Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, requesting to have his daughter Alchfled 401 given him to wife; but he could not obtain his desire unless he would receive the faith of Christ, and be baptized, with the nation which he governed.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

This night was dreadful to the inhabitants of the city; no one knew what was passing in the palace, and the troops under the Amiru-l-umara, with ten thousand Mahrattas, remained under arms: morning came, and all hope was extinguished by the royal band ( Naubat ) announcing the deposal of Farrukhsiyar, in the proclamation of Rafiu-d-darajat, his successor."
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The following are some of his notes:— (1) Whenever some of the English boys are singing “Rule Britannia”, and some not, some of the Monitors are wide-awake; (2) Whenever some of the Scotch are dancing reels, and some of the Irish fighting, some of the Welsh are eating toasted cheese; (3) Whenever all the Germans are playing chess, some of the Eleven are not oiling their bats; (4) Whenever some of the Monitors are asleep, and some not, some of the Irish are fighting; (5) Whenever some of the Germans are playing chess, and none of the Scotch are dancing reels, some of the Welsh are not eating toasted cheese; (6) Whenever some of the Scotch are not dancing reels, and some of the Irish not fighting, some of the Germans are playing chess; (7) Whenever some of the Monitors are awake, and some of the Welsh are eating toasted cheese, none of the Scotch are dancing reels; (8) Whenever some of the Germans are not playing chess, and some of the Welsh are not eating toasted cheese, none of the Irish are fighting; pg187 (9) Whenever all the English are singing “Rule Britannia,” and some of the Scotch are not dancing reels, none of the Germans are playing chess; (10) Whenever some of the English are singing “Rule Britannia”, and some of the Monitors are asleep, some of the Irish are not fighting; (11) Whenever some of the Monitors are awake, and some of the Eleven are not oiling their bats, some of the Scotch are dancing reels; (12) Whenever some of the English are singing “Rule Britannia”, and some of the Scotch are not dancing reels, * * *
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

He also desired that Cæsar would not put to death one Alexander, who had been a companion of Antony; but Cæsar had sworn to put him to death, and so he could not obtain that his petition.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The illusion was complete, no other conception entered his head, but that of his having been at work upon an unopened mine; which idea, upon so strong an evidence, redoubled at once his tenderness for me, and his ardour for breaking it wholly up.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Between the two extremes of crude naturalism on the one hand and transcendental absolutism on the other, you may find that what I take the liberty of calling the pragmatistic or melioristic type of theism is exactly what you require.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

In like manner if we consider all the Miracles done by the hand of Moses, and all the rest of the Prophets, till the Captivity; and those of our Saviour, and his Apostles afterward; we shall find, their end was alwaies to beget, or confirm beleefe, that they came not of their own motion, but were sent by God.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

we met with them under the rocky mountains in the neighbourhood of the Chopunnish Nation on the Koskooske river, but have not Seen them Since nor do we know whether they exist in the interiors of the great Plains of Columbia, or on the lower border near the mountains which pass the river about the great falls.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The conjunction plays a different part as a connective, for it connects not only words but also phrases and clauses.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

This was inevitable so long as the Unconscious remained undiscovered, but now we have the means of reaching profounder depths, of endowing the child not only with reading and arithmetic, but with health, character and personality.
— from The Practice of Autosuggestion by C. Harry (Cyrus Harry) Brooks

This went beyond all previous efforts, inasmuch as it coloured not only the objects themselves, but also the light in which they were seen.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

It may have been to this practice, that Cardinal Newman owed something of his clearness, and of his exquisite simplicity: and for his style, he should be idolised by every one who has a taste for literature.
— from The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus

"Now an outrage is committed not only when a man shall be struck with the fist, say, or with a club, or even flogged, but also if abusive language has been used to one."
— from The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. (Samuel Dennis) Warren

And most children not only admire such acts, but will seek to defend them on moral grounds, even when they are old enough to know what a lie is.
— from Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, Imagination, Social Activities, Obedience, Adolescence, Will, Heredity by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

THE THREE HAPPY CHILDREN Not once upon a time but just now, in a white house by the side of a road, live three happy children.
— from Seven O'Clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson

The Roots when collected, are to be washed very clean, from the Earth that will remain with them, for otherwise, that Dirt when in the Layers, settleth into the Pores of the Hyde or Skin, and causeth Numbers of Spots, and Discolourations.
— from A Method of Tanning without Bark by William Maple

Already our M.O.H.s (Medical Officers of Health) are in the new position: what is lacking is appreciation of the change, not only by the public but by the private doctors.
— from The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Bernard Shaw