In No. 180 . return Footnote 3: return Footnote 4: A new edition of Sir W. Petty's Essays in Political Arithmetic had just appeared.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The clamor in England over Spanish outrages continued, and was carefully nursed by the opposition to Walpole.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each other: “He is an assistant gardener.” The vocal mothers added: “He is a brother of Father Fauvent.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The stratagems of Maurice have been printed only, as I understand, at the end of Scheffer's edition of Arrian's Tactics, at Upsal, 1664, (Fabric.
— 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

examined the frame of my Iron boat and found all the parts complete except one screw, which the ingenuity of Sheilds can readily replace, a resource which we have very frequent occasion for.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This flitting cheerfulness was always at the further extremity of some long vista through the forest.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The definite object proposed in this work is an examination of the general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the effect of sea power upon the course of that history.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The greatest chief any of these tribes ever produced would become a mere toy, a butt, a ridicule, in a few days after he lost his eyes or sense of sight.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig

One man says plant them on the east or south slope of the hill and they will be ripe early.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

Like the Roman Small-Letter, the Italic is a generally recognised and accepted form: this and other considerations, such as the peculiar elegance and charm of the letters, their formal relation to modern handwriting, their compactness and economy of space in the line, and the fact that they may be written easily and with extreme regularity— being indeed the most rapid of formal hands —are practical reasons for a careful study of the type, and justify the writing of certain MS. books entirely in Italics.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

But the existence of such a tower is supported by no evidence whatsoever, and does not become even probable by the existence of a sheep-gate; for a Tower of the flock is not a tower which stands near the Sheep-gate, but a tower which is erected for the protection of the flock, as is clearly seen from Migdal Eder in Genesis.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

And there is, secondly, [ Pg 27] a full disposition on the part of our heavenly Father so to order and direct every event which befals his loving and attached children, as shall be found at last to have answered the ends of sovereign wisdom and divine mercy.
— from The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 by Various

1869 also saw the beginning of a very important work, Mr. A. J. Ellis's Early English Pronunciation , which has had a great effect on some views of prosody, and contains a very elaborate scheme of syllabic values for quality and degree of force, weight, etc.
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

As birth and death are kindred with each other, so—it seemed—Pythagoras was to stand not merely by the cradle of the republic as friend of the wise Numa and colleague of the sagacious mother Egeria, but also by its grave as the last protector of the sacred bird-lore.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen