The triumph of Christianity, and the calamities of the empire, may, in some measure, be ascribed to Julian himself, who had neglected to secure the future execution of his designs, by the timely and judicious nomination of an associate and successor.
— 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

East 〃 m Inner Square.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

In short, I have for some time been of opinion (no offence, dear Doctor) that the sum of all your medical discoveries amounts to this, that the more you study the less you know.—I have read all that has been written on the Hot Wells, and what I can collect from the whole, is, that the water contains nothing but a little salt, and calcarious earth, mixed in such inconsiderable proportion, as can have very little, if any, effect on the animal economy.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The cause of my neglecting to write last week was not the absence of this mind from home, but that it is obliged to occupy every moment in studies.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Yet such is my impatience and hideous irritability that for one which I detain and write down fifty escape me: in spite of my weariness from suffering and want of sleep, I cannot stand still or sit for two minutes together.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The relative magnitude and importance of events must, in some respect, depend upon the mind before which they are presented; the estimate of character, on the habits and feelings of the reader.
— 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

And see here how this good lady, for all she's a duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me as if I was her equal—and equal may I see her with the tallest church-tower in La Mancha!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Every moment it seemed to him that his end was near, that his heart was no longer beating.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They were now permitted to erect and consecrate convenient edifices for the purpose of religious worship; 113 to purchase lands, even at Rome itself, for the use of the community; and to conduct the elections of their ecclesiastical ministers in so public, but at the same time in so exemplary a manner, as to deserve the respectful attention of the Gentiles.
— 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

71 Every man is supposed (it would appear from Malay charms) to possess seven souls 72 in all, or, perhaps, I should more accurately say, a sevenfold soul.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"Exactly my idea!" said Roger.
— from Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell

Meanwhile, the demand for an educated ministry is steadily and rapidly increasing.
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 11, November 1880 by Various

Most of the interventions exercised in the interest of the preservation of the Turkish Empire must, in so far as they are not based on treaty rights, be classified as interventions in the interest of balance of power.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

He even mistrusts isolated statements to which he knows of no parallel elsewhere, and waits for their genuineness to be shown by corresponding accounts from the other side of the earth or the other end of history.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Every morning I sent to each surgeon a list of such diet as I could command for the sick.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers

Each man is supposed to receive three rupees a month and a lump sum of forty-eight rupees at the end of each year, but pay is uncertain and mutiny frequent.
— from A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by Harry De Windt

"There must be a bass chorus on the first of every month in San Francisco—" "Oh, please don't jest.
— from The Avalanche: A Mystery Story by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton