In case of danger, each corps commander should change this order of march, by having his advance and rear brigades unencumbered by wheels.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

What Clothes To Take For A Week-End Unless fashion turns itself upside down (which it is, of course, perfectly capable of doing), elaborate clothes, except evening ones, are entirely useless, even in Newport.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Note 11 ( return ) [ The author of the Philopatris perpetually treats the Christians as a company of dreaming enthusiasts, &c.; and in one place he manifestly alludes to the vision in which St. Paul was transported to the third heaven.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Le quel cose facte cum ogni diligentia et circumspectione se procedi poi alla sententia per quelli a chi l’ appartien, iuxta el conseio dei sopranominati.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

The former assert that the human soul is only a portion of matter, which, by a certain modification, produces in us what we call thought and will; the latter maintains that the energy accompanying thought and will is incompatible with the inertness of matter; that what is divisible, composed of divers parts, and consequently of divers entities, could not harmonize with the simple unity essential to a being that thinks, wills, reasons, with itself upon every thing, and possesses the profound consciousness of individuality.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

T O walk upon the beach and see the bright golden waves rolling beneath our feet on a sunny day, and hear the gentle surge moving like the soft cadence of dying echoes, creates in us a desire to be wafted into other climes, where we can see untold wonders, and be regaled with something new to feast our senses.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

His conclusion is quite clear: Omnia debent esse communia .
— from Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

The place was crowded with Nepalese coolies and Tibetan drivers, picturesque in their woollen knee-boots of red and green patterns, with a white star at the foot, long russet cloaks bound tightly at the waist and bulging out with cooking-utensils and changes of dress, embroidered caps of every variety and description, as often as not tied to the head by a wisp of hair.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

To this strange mixture was added the love of sanctimonious delights, such as a translation of the Visions by Angèle de Foligno , a book of an unparalleled fluid stupidity, with selected works of Jean Rusbrock l'Admirable , a mystic of the thirteenth century whose prose offered an incomprehensible but alluring combination of dusky exaltations, caressing effusions, and poignant transports.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Human beings since the days of Adam seem to have retired like caterpillars into cocoons of dress, expecting constantly the wondrous hour when they shall emerge from their self-woven prison in the garb of the angelic butterfly, having entered into the chrysalis state as mere human grubs.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Clary, who was in a condition of delirious elevation, cried out: "Oh, men of little faith!
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould