Corbin enjoined upon his staff that they "attend their business with diligence, keep the negroes in good order, and enforce obedience by the example of their own industry, which is a more effectual method in every respect than hurry and severity.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

If if had, i. e. if he had brought as much tidings concerning the supposed hell in another world, as he did respecting the supposed heaven , the account would have been published in every magazine, in every religious tract, and in every periodical work throughout the globe!
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

Ces caracteres sont quelquefois peu marques: il arrive meme que plusieurs d'entre eux s'effacent presque entierement, mais ii en reste toujours quelques-uns qui remettent l'observateur sur la voie."
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Ces caractères sont quelquefois peu marqués: il arrive meme que plusieurs d'entre eux s'effacent presque entièrement, mais ii en reste toujours quelques-uns qui remettent l'observateur sur la voie."
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

“Well, you fellows,” concluded the old trader, “that’s the true story of the saddest Easter morning I ever remember to have experienced or even heard of.
— from From Veldt Camp Fires by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

The Quarterly for April, 1865, asserted that even yet "the mass of educated men in England retain the sympathy for the South which they have nourished ever since the conflict assumed a decided shape."
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Whether, where you are now, or ever may be hereafter, you speak French, German, or English most, I earnestly recommend to you a particular attention to the propriety and elegance of your style; employ the best words you can find in the language, avoid cacophony, and make your periods as harmonious as you can.
— from Letters to His Son, 1753-54 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

If the Count could only have had his way, he would now have made every Moravian in England return to the Anglican Church.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

The antagonists were so evenly matched in every respect that there was no room for excuses, and on both sides were displayed such stubborn hardihood and a seamanship so dauntless as to make an Anglo-Saxon proud that these foemen were bred of a common stock.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

The connection is so obvious that poetry and even myth itself everywhere refer to it.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt