Also, amid many opinions held in equal repute, I chose always the most moderate, as much for the reason that these are always the most convenient for practice, and probably the best (for all excess is generally vicious), as that, in the event of my falling into error, I might be at less distance from the truth than if, having chosen one of the extremes, it should turn out to be the other which I ought to have adopted.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

a Specimon of a plant, and a parcel of its roots highly prized by the natives as an efficatious remidy in Cases of the bite of the rattle Snake or Mad Dog.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In Somersetshire alone there are two hundred relics of the piety of our forefathers; and the North of England and Scotland are especially rich in crosses.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

I have not time for anybody’s affairs but my own and those of my honorable guests; but I make an agreement with the man who pastes up the papers, and he brings them to me as he would the playbills, that in case any person staying at my hotel should like to witness an execution, he may obtain every requisite information concerning the time and place etc.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

dum necesse erat, rēsque ipsa cōgēbat, ūnus omnia poterat , RA.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

On the substance of the doctrine, the controversy was equal and endless: reason is confounded by the procession of a deity: the gospel, which lay on the altar, was silent; the various texts of the fathers might be corrupted by fraud or entangled by sophistry; and the Greeks were ignorant of the characters and writings of the Latin saints.
— 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 that it is not an exclusive realm is certain from what our old Irish manuscripts record concerning the Fomorian races.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But if the whole is not given, and can only be given by and through the empirical regress, I can only say: “It is possible to infinity, to proceed to still higher conditions in the series.”
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A number of boats were conveyed in wagons to his fortress, furnished abundantly with expert rowers, in case the flood, reaching so high as Harrow, should force them to go farther for a resting-place.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

'Twixt earthly females and the moon, All parallels exactly run; If Celia should appear too soon, Alas, the nymph would be undone!
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

A parliament at Northampton finally agreed to the treaty, May 4, 1328 ( Exchequer Rolls , i. ciii.).
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

What impeded Bloom from giving Stephen counsels of hygiene and prophylactic to which should be added suggestions concerning a preliminary wetting of the head and contraction of the muscles with rapid splashing of the face and neck and thoracic and epigastric region in case of sea or river bathing, the parts of the human anatomy most sensitive to cold being the nape, stomach and thenar or sole of foot?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Apart, too, from these important considerations, the Minster is exceptionally rich in curious features, outside its architectural details.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Edkins, Religion in China , p. 89 sq. 177 Chamberlain, Things Japanese , p. 309.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The narrative of the journey to the place of Naomi's early residence, is comprised in one short sentence; "So they two went until they came to Bethlehem."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox