Wassáf again, after describing the greatness of Khanzai (Kinsay of Polo) says: "These circumstances characterize the capital itself, but four hundred cities of note, and embracing ample territories, are dependent on its jurisdiction, insomuch that the most inconsiderable of those cities surpasses Baghdad and Shiraz.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The confusion of nations, and even of tribes, to which Hawkeye alluded, existed at that period in the fullest force.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But we go on extending our conquests over nature, and endeavour to explain all seeming deviations from these rules, and even make additions to our system which no experience can ever substantiate—for example, the theory, in affinity with that of ellipses, of hyperbolic paths of comets, pursuing which, these bodies leave our solar system and, passing from sun to sun, unite the most distant parts of the infinite universe, which is held together by the same moving power.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I complain that they did not keep up the fashion, begun after the example of kings, to change our napkin at every service, as they do our plate.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

We must observe two things: First, how can the conceptions of narcism and egoism be distinguished?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

3294 Derived, according to Marcus, from the Arabic compound bani-our , ‘child of nakedness,’ as equivalent to the Greek word gymnetes , by which name Pliny and other ancient writers designate the wandering naked races of Western Africa.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It sins against persons because there is inconsiderate haste in asserting that whole classes of men are capable of no activities, except the physical, which justify themselves inherently.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

H2 anchor THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man's life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She receives us at our birth, nourishes us when born, and ever afterwards supports us; lastly, embracing us in her bosom when we are rejected by the rest of nature, she then covers us with especial tenderness; rendered sacred to us, inasmuch as she renders us sacred, bearing our monuments 92 and titles, continuing our names, and extending our memory, in opposition to the shortness of life.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Stammler means that the concept of necessity as employed by many Marxians, is erroneous; that the denial of teleology is absurd, and that hence the assertion of the socialisation of the means of production as the social programme is not logically accounted for.
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce

Fremont —V 435 ix ILLUSTRATIONS Captains Lewis and Clark Were Much Puzzled at This Point to Know Which of the Rivers Before Them Was the Main Missouri Frontispiece FACING PAGE “ I Now Resigned Myself to the Fate with Which I Was Menaced ” 28 A Man of the Naudowessie From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America , by Jonathan Carver 62 A Man of the Ottigaumies From Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America , by Jonathan Carver 62 Alexander Mackenzie From Mackenzie’s Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America , etc.
— from Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell

The arrangement became popular in the Romanesque churches of Normandy and England, and can be seen at Mont-Saint-Michel, Rochester, Ely, Gloucester, Peterborough, and Winchester.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

In like manner the social and political changes that have improved the tone of society, elevated the condition of nations, and endowed them with an enduring liberty, have not been accomplished in the twinkling of an eye, or by individual intelligence and will.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

"There is the beginning of a chapter of necessary and expedient—romance—here," he decided.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

A change of climate might thus be produced in the ocean from Florida to Spitzbergen, and in many countries of North America, Europe, and Greenland.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

the comity of nations and equality before the law.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

While different species of plants, given the same conditions of nutrition and environment, produce organs of the widest conceivable variety in form, color, and function; within the same species , the form and size of leaves, the position and branching of the stem, the color, size, and shape of the flower, the coloration and markings of the fruit, etc., are relatively constant and subject to only very slight modifications.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher