Colonel Byrd writes, "Your Lord's opinion concerning Rum and Negroes is certainly very just, and your excluding both of them from your colony of Georgia will be very happy....
— from Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford

If I once get a perch to which I can return at need, I can take short flights wherever I will, without such heaps of luggage.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

* The beginning of true virtue is most ardently to desire it, and to ask it of God with the utmost assiduity and earnestness,[2] preferring it with all the saints to kingdoms and thrones, and considering riches as nothing in comparison of this our only and inestimable treasure.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

"The greatness of the tribulation in this region," says the epistle, "and the fury of the heathen against the saints, and the sufferings of the blessed witnesses, we cannot recount accurately, nor indeed could they possibly be recorded.
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

But the spirit of adventure, the disaffection, and the disappointed ambition which had so rapidly recruited their population, gave a general bias to their political feelings which no arbitrary authority could restrain, and no institutions counteract.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

After these came a host of officials, butchers and their assistants, soothsayers, augurs, prophets,—in fact, all the attendants that the complicated rites, as numerous in Chaldæa as in Egypt, required, not to speak of the bands of women and men who honoured the god in meretricious rites.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

The adjectives "extreme" and "fanatical" have, during the last twenty years, been applied to most valuable men of various parties and beliefs; they have been so applied by masses of conventionally respectable and not insincere citizens.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various