The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Each diplomatic or consular establishment was allowed to exchange monthly a certain number of dollars, supposed to represent the total salaries of the staff, and other government charges, thirteen ichibus per $100 being deducted for coinage.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

This was the consideration that incessantly prompted, and still importunes me to run every risk of life and fortune, rather than leave my fame under such an ignominious aspersion.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

With this view it has been proposed by some that the colonies should return representatives to the British Legislature, and by others that the powers of our own, as well as of their Parliaments, should be confined to internal policy, and that there should be another representative body for foreign and imperial concerns, in which last the dependencies of Great Britain should be represented in the same manner, and with the same completeness as Great Britain itself.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The philosopher, who considered the system of polytheism as a composition of human fraud and error, could disguise a smile of contempt under the mask of devotion, without apprehending that either the mockery, or the compliance, would expose him to the resentment of any invisible, or, as he conceived them, imaginary powers.
— 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

“Well, of course, that is possible also.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

in either case the Indians preserve and eat the blubber and Oil as has been before mentioned.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The Real Jewish Peril In considering the immense problem of the Jewish Power, perhaps the most important problem with which the modern world is confronted, it is necessary to divest oneself of all prejudices and to enquire in a spirit of scientific detachment whether any definite proof exists that a concerted attempt is being made by Jewry to achieve world-domination and to obliterate the Christian faith.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Their greetings spoken, their first topic of conversation was, of course, the injury proposed to be done to the American ladies, and which would now fall upon them.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

He was an honest man—poor when he became a member of the Directory, and poor when he left it."— Napoleon , Las Cases , tom. ii., p. 136.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

When England went mad over the Crimean war, Milnes wrote calmly: ‘For my own part I like neither of the combatants, though I prefer a feeble and superannuated despotism as less noxious to mankind than one young and vigorous, and assisted by the appliances of modern intelligence.’
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

It is clear that in patriarchal times men had, according to universally accepted ideas, the power of life and death over their families, which it would be absurd and wicked to claim in our day, with our increased light as to moral distinctions.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord

"Say rather in my heart !" cried the impetuous prince.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

The sorrow which I feel, under the consideration that, in parting with many of you, we never probably shall meet again in mutability, is softened by the persuasion, that the difficulties by which you are surrounded are lessening, and that some who are now opposing you, will, ere long, join you in efforts, which shall remove from the minds, both of abolitionists and slave-holders, the belief so generally entertained, that the Society of Friends in this country are not earnestly engaged for the total and immediate abolition of slavery.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

They had stolen the bone, too, but had left the chief treasure intact, possibly because it was too heavy and bulky to bear away with safety.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

From numerous analyses the author concludes that in presence of much free nitric acid the proportion of water is increased; with free alkali the reverse holds good.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

These meditations on the character of Robespierre, show sufficiently that Lamartine, though he may not as yet have taken a positive direction in politics, has at least, from his vague poetical conceptions, returned to a sound state of political criticism, the inevitable precursor of sound theories.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various