In all epidemical diseases caused by Saturn, that is as good a preservative as grows: It resists poison, by defending and comforting the heart, blood, and spirits; it doth the like against the plague and all epidemical diseases, if the root be taken in powder to the weight of half a dram at a time, with some good treacle in Carduus water, and the party thereupon laid to sweat in his bed; if treacle be not to be had take it alone in Carduus or Angelica-water.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Were I to enumerate half the diseases which are every day cured by sea-bathing, you might justly say you had received a treatise, instead of a letter, from Your affectionate friend and servant, J. MELFORD SCARBOROUGH, July 1. H2 anchor To Dr LEWIS.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

That the general disposition of individuals of the same species, born in a state of nature, is extremely diversified, can be shown by a multitude of facts.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

For a man of evil desire cannot be slain by a woman; and the merit of my austerity would be lost if I were to launch a curse against thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The latitude of these extensive deserts cannot be so easily, or so accurately, measured; but, from the fortieth degree, which touches the wall of China, we may securely advance above a thousand miles to the northward, till our progress is stopped by the excessive cold of Siberia.
— 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

Since, then, existence itself is the free work of the will, nay, the mere reflection of it, existence cannot be apart from will, and the latter will be provisionally satisfied with existence in general, in so far, namely, as that which is eternally dissatisfied can be satisfied.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

At its base are seen at a distance only the painted shields which cover the ground and hide it from sight; in every direction can be seen 542 only the fatal stones and cruel missiles which fly in the air like dense swarms of bees; the sky itself between the tower and the clouds is obscured by them.
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

I. 415) that another date found in an early document cannot be so explained.
— from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study by Rush Rhees

The large extent of the collection alone, then, renders it of great importance: but its value is immeasurably enhanced by the two circumstances,— first , that every drawing was made while the fish retained all that vividness of colouring which becomes lost so soon after its removal from its native element; and secondly , that when the sketch was finished its subject was carefully labelled, preserved in spirits, and forwarded to England, so that at the present moment the original of every drawing can be subjected to anatomical examination, and compared with already named species.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

When this lift is finished, it is thought that several others of equal depth can be sunk as the basin is likely to be very deep.
— from A Report on Washington Territory by William Henry Ruffner

By means of this apparatus the electrical discharge could be sent through any kind of rarefied media.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

And we, who know what our own people paid in broken nerve, in bitterness, and in economic dislocation, cannot be surprised that France has paid a heavie price.
— from The Problem of Foreign Policy A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them by Gilbert Murray

[298] El Doctor Coyote Belly seemed to be materialized from the rocks so noiselessly had he approached the group.
— from Dust of the Desert by Robert Welles Ritchie

Surely, even death cannot be so terrible!"
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley