The difference of place is easily reconciled; but the decisive authority of Asterius of Amasia (Orat. iv.
— 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

The word statistics was invented in the middle of the last century by a German professor, [1] to express a summary view of the physical, moral, and social conditions of States; he justly remarked, that a numerical statement of the extent, density of population, imports, exports, revenues, etc., of a country, more perfectly explained its social condition than general statements, however graphic or however accurate.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

So characteristic that we recognize the portrait in the descriptions of Pliny in early Roman tunes and of Marco Polo in his Asiatic travels.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

The history of our country since the days of printing is exactly reflected in its burnt literature, and so little has the public fire been any respecter of class or dignity, that no branch of intellectual activity has failed to contribute some author whose work, or works, has been consigned to the flames.
— from Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer

He should sedulously seek to bring his sheep to a high degree of perfection in every respect.
— from Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 by Henry Howland Crapo

I felt quarrelsome, aggressive, {257} quixotic, and desirous of pitching into everybody, right and left.
— from A Christian Woman by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de