Nor did the Church of Rome ever establish this Transubstantiation, till the time of Innocent the third; which was not above 500.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Yet the mere fact of reliance upon something, the assumption that the world is steady and capable of rational exploitation, even if in a supernatural interest and by semi-magical means, amounts to an essential loyalty to postulates of practical reason, an essential adherence to natural morality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In such a rush and such a mêlée a great consensus of respectable, even eminent, naval opinion of the present day finds the necessary outcome of modern naval weapons,—a kind of Donnybrook Fair, in which, as the history of mêlées shows, it will be hard to know friend from foe.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In this chapter the most common animal and vegetable antiscorbutic foodstuffs will be considered and the effect which processes such as drying, canning, change of reaction, etc., exert on their specific value.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

for let me tell you, my friend, you are ugly compared to many shepherds on the Campagna of Rome,” etc., etc. Such speeches may surprise the reader, but they were part of a system profoundly meditated by Beatrix in this her third incarnation,—for at each passion a woman becomes another being and advances one step more into profligacy, the only word which properly renders the effect of the experience given by such adventures.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

The conditions of the hermit life contributed to develop to a very high degree a spirit of independence and spiritual pride, which was still further increased by a curious habit that existed in the Church of regarding each eminent hermit as the special model or professor of some particular virtue, and making pilgrimages to him, in order to study this aspect of his character.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Don Melchor slept little; he rose before sunrise; and directly he got up he ascended to his observatory, and examined the sky and the sea; and after drawing out in his head a meteorological map of the coming day, he went down to the end of the mole to corroborate his observations; ascertained whether the wind was passing, or settled, if it were positively north, or inclined to the east or west, if the weather were going to be good or bad, if the sea would be stormy or calm, how long the weather would remain as it was; to what quarter the wind would veer at mid-day; if the sea would then be calm or rough, etc., etc.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

When someone began to recite “eastward the course of Roman Empire, etc., etc.,” he hastily left the forum.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

In spite of this no thought of capitulation or retreat ever entered the mind of Osman Pasha...."
— from Sir John French: An Authentic Biography by Cecil Chisholm

A carefully folded dress of dark blue silk, to all appearance elegantly made, confronted our rather eager eyes.
— from A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green