'Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

If society, as has been remarked, is a sham, from the vulgar foundation of commonalty to the crowning summit of royalty, especially do we perceive the justness of the remark in the Slang makeshifts for oaths, and sham exclamations for passion and temper.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

He quotes some lines from the celebrated Scherif or Rahdi, Egone humilitatem induam in terris hostium?
— 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

It cannot fail to arrest the attention to find Science declaring that all the loveliness of the landscape, the fresh green tints of early summer and the golden glow of autumn, the brilliant dyes of flowers, of insects, of birds, the soft blue of the cloudless sky, the rosy hues of sunset and of dawn, the chromatic splendour of rubies, emeralds, and other gems, the beauties of the million-coloured rainbow,—are all due to light—to light alone, and are not qualities of the bodies themselves, which merely seem to possess the colours.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

The industrial and commercial stage of Russian economy began with the emancipation, which set free a great supply [30] of labor.
— from Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph

Another point upon which we laid stress was the limitation of the right to strike: While it is clear from the public point of view that a concerted strike of railway employees for a great region would be as intolerable as a strike of the postal clerks; on the other hand, the position of the employees is a very natural one.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

Cocoas containing a moderate amount of arrow-root or other starch must not be considered adulterated articles, for it is impossible to render cocoa soluble, or rather emulsive, without the addition of some diffusible substance.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Sworn to serve Each Grace, the Furies call him minister— He, who was born for just that roseate world Renounced so madly, where what 's false is fact, Where he makes beauty out of ugliness, Where he lives, life itself disguised for him As immortality—so works the spell, The enthusiastic mood which marks a man Muse-mad, dream-drunken, wrapt around by verse, Encircled with poetic atmosphere, As lark emballed by its own crystal song, Or rose enmisted by that scent it makes!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The colossal statue only recently erected in Germany, is a tribute to the unhappy hero of eighteen centuries ago.
— from The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele