Were there no public institutions for education, no system, no science, would be taught, for which there was not some demand, or which the circumstances of the times did not render it either necessary or convenient, or at least fashionable to learn.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Meantime, on the 15th and 16th of December, were fought, in front of Nashville, the great battles in which General Thomas so nobly fulfilled his promise to ruin Hood, the details of which are fully given in his own official reports, long-since published.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

There he sat one day, and held his magnifying-glass to his eye, and looked at a drop of water that had been taken out of a puddle by the ditch.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Bubastite nome worshipped Bubastis, Artemis, or Diana, of whom it contained a fine temple.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

World War II saw the adaptation of various scattering devices, of which the most effective was the barometric fuze, shown here.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Colbert had three daughters, of whom the eldest was just married when Pepys wrote, viz., Jean Marie Therese, to the Duc de Chevreuse, on the 3rd February, 1667.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Of warlike Lyceums{1} ye are The favored sons; there, deeds of war Formed e'en your plays, while o'er you shook The battle-flags in air aloft!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

[The district of Wakhán "comprises the valleys containing the two heads of the Panjah branch of the Oxus, and the valley of the Panjah itself, from the junction at Zung down to Ishkashím.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

If we are to give the name of cognition to a mere mode of representation (which is quite permissible if the latter is not a principle of the theoretical determination of what an object is in itself, but of the practical determination of what the Idea of it should be for us and for its purposive use), then all our knowledge of God is merely symbolical; and he who regards it as schematical, along with the properties of Understanding, Will, etc., which only establish their objective reality in beings of this world, falls into Anthropomorphism, just as he who gives up every intuitive element falls into Deism, by which nothing at all is cognised, not even in a practical point of view.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But it was not till the fourth year that I could allow myself the least grain of this corn to eat, and even then but sparingly, as I shall say afterwards, in its order; for I lost all that I sowed the first season by not observing the proper time; for I sowed it just before the dry season, so that it never came up at all, at least not as it would have done; of which in its place.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The drift of this argument was, that the Repeal of the Orders, made almost simultaneously with the American Declaration of War, and known in the United States two months later, should have terminated hostilities.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I forget whether it was that morning or the next that my darling on waking from sleep said that she had had such a pleasant dream of her childhood and Adderley and 'old Lady Corbet,' who first taught her to 'love what was beautiful.'
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

In other words, the lowest temperature which is compatible with comfort, is, in all cases, best adapted to health; and a slight degree of coldness, provided it amount not to a chill, and is not long continued, is more safe than the smallest unnecessary degree of warmth.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The English declaration of war was laid before Parliament on the 18th; and the first capture, a French lugger of fourteen guns.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

One of the six sold copies, or, rather, probably, one of the three or four hundred copies that were given away, fell into the hands of the editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, and he made up his mind that, poor as these stories were, the author who had written them could, by dint of working, make something as a novel-writer.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

Ah, one that is left shall murmur and ask of the bud and bloom, And question the awful silence and mourn at the gates of gloom; And call through the nights of darkness and sit at the doors of woe, And never an answer at all, dear, from lips that it used to know!
— from Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman Edwin Miller

Archibald had distinguished himself as a forger of letters intended to aid Morton, but was denounced by his own brother, also a judge, Douglas of Whittingham.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
— from The Sack of Monte Carlo: An Adventure of To-day by Walter Frith

“Ah, that was when I was dreaming of what will never come to pass; when I was thinking of literature as a high vocation.”
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

For this reason, in traversing the division of home and social economics, the pupil encounters “an effort to determine problems in civic life which seem to be a part of the duties of women.”
— from The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard