All that our Lord doeth is rightful, and that which He suffereth [3] is worshipful: and in these two is comprehended good and ill: for all that is good our Lord doeth, and that which is evil our Lord suffereth.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Nevertheless it was a fortunate circumstance for the colonists that the effusion of lava should have been in the direction of Lake Grant.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Eble oni lin savus , they might ( possibly they would ) save him.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

After considerable experience in coming into contact with wealthy and noted men, I have observed that those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who "keep under the body"; are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

In the year next following, the parson and parish of St. Dunston, in the east of London, seeing the famous and mighty man (for the words be in the grant, cum nobilis et potens vir ), Simon Eyre, [139] citizen of London, among other his works of piety, effectually determined to erect and build a certain granary upon the soil of the same city at Leaden hall, of his own charges, for the common utility of the said city, to the amplifying and enlarging of the said granary, granted to Henry Frowicke, then mayor, the aldermen and commonalty, and their successors for ever, all their tenements, with the appurtenances, sometime called the Horsemill, in Grasse street, for the annual rent of four pounds, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The adored Benson gave it a suck first, and well wetting the knob, guided it to the narrow entrance of love’s secret bower.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Take of the juice of Borrage, Bugloss, Bawm, Bistort, Tormentil, Scordium, Vervain, sharp-pointed Dock, Sorrel, Goat’s Rue, Mirrhis, Blue Bottle great and small, Roses, Marigolds, Lemon, Citrons, of each three ounces, white Wine Vinegar one pound, Purslain seeds two ounces, Citron and Carduus seeds, of each half an ounce, Water Lily flowers two ounces, the flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Violets, Clove-gilliflowers, of each one ounce, Diatrion Sentalon six drams: let all of them, being rightly prepared, be infused three days, then distilled in a glass still: to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos, Siletia, and Samos, of each one ounce and an half, Pearls prepared with the juice of Citrons, three drams, mix them, and keep them together.
— 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

Progress in government and law, that is to say, in the enactment of laws securing justice and equity to every man, consistent with the [158] largest individual liberty, and the due and orderly enforcement of the same upon all.
— from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller

[176] Mr. Henry Liddell, who was resident on the Darling River in 1871-72, informs me that he has heard from stock-riders and ration-carriers similar accounts to that of Mr. Moffatt, with reference to the existence of large serpents of the boa species in an adjacent locality, viz.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

As I looked down on it from that elevation one lovely Sunday morning, through a mild glitter of autumn sunshine, it seemed the very model of a generous, beneficent stream.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

Edward Carpenter has beautifully voiced this longing:— That there should exist one other person in the world towards whom all openness of interchange should establish itself, from whom there should be no concealment; whose body should be as dear to one, in every part, as one's own; with whom there should be no sense of Mine or Thine, in property or possession; into whose mind one's thoughts should naturally flow, as it were to know themselves and to receive a new illumination; and between whom and oneself there should be a spontaneous rebound of sympathy in all the joys and sorrows and experiences of life; such is perhaps one of the dearest wishes of the soul.—"Love's Coming of Age."
— from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Marie Carmichael Stopes

And as he measured Lord Seely's duty towards him accurately by the extent of all he desired and expected of Lord Seely, it will be seen how far short the latter had fallen of Algernon's standard.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

She consented that the Earl of Lennox should go into Scotland to recover his forfeited estates, and that his son should follow him to share in his father’s good fortune; she even went the length of recommending them both to the especial favour of the Scottish Queen; but of course said not a word of any suspicions she entertained of the projected alliance.
— from Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 1 (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

on saloons, 505 ; source of the opposition, 506 ; Mrs. Blake with Gen. Hancock on woman suffrage, 520 ; requested of A. by editor of Le Soir in Paris, 561 ; impressions of Gr. Brit., 581 ; change in public men, and on woman of the future, 582 ; contrast between pioneer and modern suffragists, 729 ; on N. Y. anti-suftragists, 766 ; on her alliance with Popu.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper