The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Once more he saw himself the young banker's clerk, with an agreeable person, as clever in figures as he was fluent in speech and fond of theological definition: an eminent though young member of a Calvinistic dissenting church at Highbury, having had striking experience in conviction of sin and sense of pardon.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The final syllable of a verse must terminate a word (except in cases of synapheia, see 2510 ), and may be either long or short (whence it is termed syllaba anceps ) without regard to the rhythm.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Neither can you be excused, except in case of sickness.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Add to this that it does not appear that any animal naturally makes war on man, except in case of self-defence or excessive hunger, or betrays any of those violent antipathies, which seem to indicate that one species is intended by nature for the food of another.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That Abelard is not mentioned in the Divine Comedy may appear a singular omission to the reader of Dante, who seems to have inwoven into the texture of his work whatever had impressed him as either effective in colour or spiritually significant among the recorded incidents of actual life.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The old woman examined it carefully over, smiled to herself, but, like all her people, was too proud to return a word of thanks.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Albinos (al-bī′nōz), the name given to those persons from whose skin, hair, and eyes, in consequence of some defect in their organization, the dark colouring matter is absent.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

To all those who may exclaim against my errors, I can only say, in the language of the greatest Reformer that ever came upon the earth, "_let him or her that is without sin cast the first stone."
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

H2 anchor Not All Rights Are Alienable Whensoever a man Transferreth his Right, or Renounceth it; it is either in consideration of some Right reciprocally transferred to himselfe; or for some other good he hopeth for thereby.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The remainder were men eminent in Church or State, "the master of the hospital," 9 who must not be confounded with the school-master, being the only official member.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

Carefully handled in his youth, the bob-tail is unequalled as a stock dog, and he is equally at home and efficient in charge of sheep, of cattle, and of New Forest ponies.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

Hoc inter me et illos interest, quod, cum et illi cives optimi sint, et ego ab ista laude non absim, ego condicionibus, quod idem te intellexeram velle, illi armis disceptari maluerunt.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The republicans scrupled the policy of a war with France, and denied the necessity, even in case of such a war, of a large land force.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Main Entrance in Court of same 539 989 .
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

We can readily conceive, that to a woman of the exquisite taste possessed by Mrs Hemans, any attempt at the startling or bizarre , either in conception or subject, was a thing especially to be avoided.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848 by Various