how there are some Things in Paul ’s Epistles hard to be understood, which the Unstable and Unlearned wrest to their own Destruction ; insinuating plainly this of those Expressions in Paul ’s Epistles, as Rom.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

In the mean time, our young Doctor is playing truant oftener than ever.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But he is enabled to [430] do so by lending credence to a legend that Aristotle in his old age recanted his heretical doctrines, in particular that of the eternity of the world.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

[173] “Our Ancestors ... for a long time deemed it policy to obstruct the emancipation of Slaves and affected to consider a free Negro as a useless if not a dangerous being” ...
— from Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 by Edward Raymond Turner