The family affairs Alessandro takes care of now, and is really getting them into order.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

"The responsibility of determining, declaring, and supporting such Civil and Military policy, and of directing the whole course of National affairs in regard to the Rebellion, must now be assumed and exercised by you, or our Cause will be lost.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Horneck, 75 .—Rose Hill—Trereiffe, 76 .—The country wild but susceptible of cultivation, 77 .—Furze—Boulders of Granite, 77 .—Capable of numerous applications in rural œconomy, 78 .—Cornish Granite, (provincially, Growan), when in a state of decomposition is used as a manure, 79 .—Theory of its operation, 79 .—Form of the Felspar crystals, 79 .—State of Agriculture—The Farm of John Scobell, Esq.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

I have already given various illustrations of Real Assent; I will follow them up here by some instances of the change of Notional Assent into Real.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

The point visited is on the summit of an undulating range of hills about ten miles distant from the city of Newark and its remarkable earthworks, hereafter described.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

I have tried to present to you in the first chapter the biblical conception of Nature and its relation to God.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

The invaders sailed on towards the coast of Norway, and I remained in dreary desolation on the now lonely island.
— from Fairy Circles Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins by Villamaria

Legends are exceedingly numerous, many of them recording incidents relating to certain expeditions or to certain discoveries, such as the expedition of Magellan; early expeditions along the west coast of North America, including reference to Cortes, Ulloa, Alarçon, Cabrillo, Guzman, Drake; expeditions to the East Indies, including that of Le Maire, Hoorn, Van Diemen, Chaumont, and others.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

Just as the growing power of Christianity in the second and third centuries of our era was shown by the competition of new and imitative religions like that of Mithra, and by spasmodic attempts on the part of the [157] old heathenism to interpret its mythology symbolically and to reform its moral practice; just as the growing power of the gospel in the fifteenth century led the Roman Church to slough off some of its abuses and to tolerate among its adherents reformers before the Reformation; so in India the new learning from the West and the missionary proclamation of the gospel have brought about a state of religious unrest which could only be allayed by efforts on the part of Hindus and Moslems alike to interpret their faiths more rationally and to prove that these faiths were equal if not superior to Christianity itself.
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong