All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labour, namely, when, instead of one man doing everything, each confines himself to a certain kind of work distinct from others in the treatment it requires, so as to be able to perform it with greater facility and in the greatest perfection.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Dr. Bright summarizes these differences, “Early English Church History,” p. 64.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Some make much of a letter, supposed to be written about this time by Raleigh to Cecil, bidding Cecil keep down Essex, even crush him, now that he is once down.
— from Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley

1. Codex diplomaticus ecclesiasticus et civilis Hungariae.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

My dear Ellie!—--" Ellen could hardly stand the tone of these three words, and she bore with the greatest difficulty the kiss that followed them; it took but a word or two more, and a glance at the old look and smile, to break down entirely all her guard.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

She spoke in a slow, melancholy voice, and, to judge from her depressed expression, evidently considered herself a martyr for the afternoon.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

Dowden , Edward, English critic, historian, and educator, was born at Cork in 1843, died in 1913.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various