Mentally surrounded with that past again, Bulstrode had the same pleas—indeed, the years had been perpetually spinning them into intricate thickness, like masses of spider-web, padding the moral sensibility; nay, as age made egoism more eager but less enjoying, his soul had become more saturated with the belief that he did everything for God's sake, being indifferent to it for his own.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The time of Louis XV. furnished examples of none but secondary expeditions, unless we except that of Richelieu against Minorca, which was very glorious as an escalade, but less extraordinary as a descent.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

New and improved edition by Lappenberg Elamburg, 1830.
— 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

This exquisite little poem was first published in 1837 in the Keepsake , an annual edited by Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, and was included in the edition of 1842.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Not that these affairs do not subsequently undergo a regular examination; but long experience has caused the judgment to be thus anticipated.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Edited by L. E. Rector , Ph.D. $1.00.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[ The activity of Ohio is not confined to individuals, but the undertakings of the State are surprisingly great; a canal has been established between Lake Erie and the Ohio, by means of which the valley of the Mississippi communicates with the river of the North, and the European commodities which arrive at New York may be forwarded by water to New Orleans across five hundred leagues of continent.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And that is to me to euerlastyng helthe, that this same thing be doon by ȝoure preiers, and mynystryng of the Holi Goost, either bi lijf, either bi deeth.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Hand in hand about this valley, for fifteen years, roamed I with Eleonora before Love entered within our hearts.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The original edition of this text was translated into English by Rudolf Tombo, Ph.D., and published by The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1913, as part of volume VI of The Humanist's Library, edited by Lewis Einstein.
— from Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer

I "To the King and Council; the Burgesses of Oxford complain, whereas the Chancellor and University of Oxford have cognizance of contracts, covenants, and trespass between clerk and clerk, or clerk and lay, they encroach on the franchise of the town, and draw to them these contracts, etc., between laymen, especially in certain gifts and actions brought before the Chancellor, wherein a clerk has some concern, who, by covine, are made to incur large sums which were not due, and thus the defendants are condemned and afterwards excommunicated in all the churches of the town, unless they agree thereto; and if they are not absolved of the sentence before the Chancellor, they are despoiled even to their breeches, and must give all their goods to the clerk.
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

But not the longest fish-line had ever been long enough to plumb Sandy's depths.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

Stephen W. Dorsey left no blank; A. E. Boone left every blank; and yet they brought him forward to prove that that was the result of a conspiracy; and after he comes upon the stand he swears, "I left those blanks myself; I always left them in proposals exactly in that way; and whether I left out the amount of the bid or the name of the bidder, I did not do it to defraud the Government; I did it simply to protect myself, as I had the right to do."
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

A few facts connected with this supreme and dominating characteristic take root in your memory, however, and you have learned that the customs and rites of caste could not be strengthened even by legal enactments, or by the massed strength of all the armies on earth.
— from East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan by Frederic Courtland Penfield

It would receive legal organisation, and would even be legally enjoined.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

The confidence of the people lost, they had taken to themselves the only advisers in their power, and taught themselves to suppose that relief can only be effected by legislative enactments, or their own efforts.
— from St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever

It was quite a new era in the work, and called out fresh energies; but like every new thing, it absorbed too much attention, to the exclusion of the simple Gospel for the unsaved.
— from From Death into Life or, Twenty Years of my Ministry by W. (William) Haslam

"Yesterday was an eventful day, for yesterday, too, Martin Burney was to be examined by Lord Eldon, previous to his being admitted as an attorney; but he has not been here yet to announce his success.
— from Mary Lamb by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist