What makes matters worse is that, when the public mind is invoked (as, to its credit, the English mind is extremely open to be) in the name of justice and philanthropy in behalf of the subject community or race, there is the same probability of its missing the mark; for in the subject community also there are oppressors and oppressed—powerful individuals or classes, and slaves prostrate before them; and it is the former, not the latter, who have the means of access to the English public.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

As the price of his disgraceful concessions, the emperor might perhaps have stipulated, that the camp of the hungry Romans should be plentifully supplied; and that they should be permitted to pass the Tigris on the bridge which was constructed by the hands of the Persians.
— 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

If feelings are causes, of course their effects must be furtherances and checkings of internal cerebral motions, of which in themselves we are entirely without knowledge.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

" "Did any one call this evening?" "Mr. Hallward, sir.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"Will you have better things than we?" cried the envious mother; "then you shall lose the chance"; and so saying, she took a carving-knife and killed the goat dead.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

For (apart from the difficulty of comparing different kinds of services where we cannot make repayment in kind) Equality has two distinct meanings, according as we consider the effort made by the benefactor, or the service rendered to the benefited.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I shall be thankful if you will condescend to enlighten my ignorance.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Moreover, the said officers enter in the book of the Customs, to each merchant's credit, all his merchandise, causing themselves after he paid their dues of the merchants, whether for all his said merchandise or for such part thereof as he withdraweth from the customhouse.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"I chanced to encounter Mr. Fink-Nottle in the garden, sir, while you were still in bed, and we had a brief conversation."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Even with her arm about the child's shoulders, the incongruity of calling upon a woman who took in washing came to Elsie Marley—likewise the fact that she wasn't likely to be in Enderby beyond Monday at the latest.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

them and Stole their horses &c—The Cheif then envited me & the Mandan Chief to his house to talk there.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

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— from The Discards by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

But if, on the contrary, the exercise may be performed without the necessity of voluntary thought, or the reiteration of ideas by the mind, however plausible or imposing it may appear, it is next to certain, that although such an exercise may be sufficiently burdensome to the child, and cause much labour and anxiety to the teacher, it will most assuredly be at least useless, if not injurious.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

The smallest of visible animalcules, spoken of by Buffon and his followers as constituting the elementary molecules of organic beings.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Namibia: foodstuffs; petroleum products and fuel, machinery and equipment, chemicals Nauru: food, fuel, manufactures, building materials, machinery Nepal: gold, machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer Netherlands: machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels; foodstuffs, clothing Netherlands Antilles: crude petroleum, food, manufactures New Caledonia: transport equipment, machinery and electrical equipment, fuels, minerals, wine, sugar, rice New Zealand: machinery and equipment, vehicles and aircraft, petroleum, consumer goods, plastics Nicaragua: machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products, consumer goods Niger: consumer goods, primary materials, machinery, vehicles and parts, petroleum, cereals Nigeria: machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, food and live animals Niue: food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs Norfolk Island: NA Northern Mariana Islands: food, construction equipment and materials, petroleum products Norway: machinery and equipment, chemicals, metals, foodstuffs Oman: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, livestock, lubricants Pakistan: machinery, petroleum, petroleum products, chemicals, transportation equipment, edible oils, grains, pulses, flour Palau: machinery and equipment, fuels, metals; foodstuffs Panama: capital goods, crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, chemicals Papua New Guinea: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals Paraguay: road vehicles, consumer goods, tobacco, petroleum products, electrical machinery Peru: machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals Philippines: raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods, consumer goods, fuels Pitcairn Islands: fuel oil, machinery, building materials, flour, sugar, other foodstuffs Poland: machinery and transport equipment 38.2%, intermediate manufactured goods 20.8%, chemicals 14.3%, miscellaneous manufactured goods 9.5% (1999) Portugal: machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, petroleum, textiles, agricultural products Puerto Rico: chemicals, machinery and equipment, clothing, food, fish, petroleum products Qatar: machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals Reunion: manufactured goods, food, beverages, tobacco, machinery and transportation equipment, raw materials, and petroleum products Romania: machinery and equipment 23%, fuels and minerals 12%, chemicals 9%, textile and products 19% (1999)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

106 This man had set his desire upon an unholy thing; for though from Polycrates the Samian he had never suffered anything nor heard any offensive word nor even seen him before that time, he desired to take him and put him to death for a reason of this kind, as most who report the matter say:—while Oroites and another Persian whose name was Mitrobates, ruler of the province of Daskyleion, 107 were sitting at the door of the king's court, they came from words to strife with one another; and as they debated their several claims to excellence, Mitrobates taunting Oroites said: "Dost thou 108 count thyself a man, who didst never yet win for the king the island of Samos, which lies close to thy province, when it is so exceedingly easy of conquest that one of the natives of it rose up against the government with fifteen men-at-arms and got possession of the island, and is now despot of it?"
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In the conversation that ensued my uncle requested the Archbishop to send him the names of the persons that occurred to him as best qualified for the situation, and begged him not to confine the list to a small number.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

We wish to advocate the principle of unity, the love of God and neighbor, the love of a purpose that is great, ennobling, good in itself, and calculated to exalt man and bring him nearer to the likeness of the Son of God.—
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

The passage along the clerestory is formed by a succession of "shouldered arches," as they are commonly called, though each merely consists of a flat lintel resting on corbels, which is not strictly an arch at all.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by George Worley