] We might naturally expect that a principle so essential to religion, would have been revealed in the clearest terms to the chosen people of Palestine, and that it might safely have been intrusted to the hereditary priesthood of Aaron.
— 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

He developed journalism, established the American Philosophical Society, the public library in Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Also occasionally with verbs equivalent to a passive, such as cadō , intereō , pereō , vēneō , &c., &c. Things or animals are sometimes represented as persons by the use of ab : as, animus bene īnfōrmātus
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I am not sure, for example, that all physiologists see that it commits them to regarding the mind as an essentially teleological mechanism.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

We might expect that a private should have merged in a royal name; and that the descendants of Peter of France and Elizabeth of Courtenay would have enjoyed the titles and honors of princes of the blood.
— 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

Did they expect, that a prince, strenuously exercised in the toils of war and government, should agitate, with dexterity like their own, the abstruse and profound questions which amused the leisure of the schools of Athens?
— 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

No, whatever they may say, when, despite its renown, a country is depopulated, it is not true that all is well, and it is not enough that a poet should have an income of 100,000 francs to make his age the best of all.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All wolves, foxes, jackals and species of the cat genus, when kept tame, are most eager to attack poultry, sheep and pigs; and this tendency has been found incurable in dogs which have been brought home as puppies from countries such as Tierra del Fuego and Australia, where the savages do not keep these domestic animals.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The cardinal, in a public harangue, declared it to be an unpardonable enormity, that a priest should dare to consecrate and touch the body of Christ immediately after he had risen from the side of a strumpet; for that was the decent appellation which he gave to the wives of the clergy.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

He did not have the impression either that any particular sympathy for him on Heinrich's part was the real reason for all these confessions.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

He was a young fellow of exceptional talents, and published some works on geology, the branch of science to which he had devoted himself.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

Taylor, in his Medical Jurisprudence, gives us a definition as follows: “The main character of insanity, in a legal view, is said to be the existence of delusion ; i. e. , that a person should believe something to exist which does not exist, and that he should act upon this belief.”
— from The Curiosities and Law of Wills by John Proffatt

In the schoolroom, each teacher and pupil should regard the ventilation of the room as the most important single factor in the success of their work.
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

This was followed by further laughter, for, as Farquhar explained to Alison, pack signifies the transporting of one's possessions, usually upon the owner's back, in most of western Canada, and the notice thus implies that the defaulting farmer had judiciously removed himself and everything of value except his dwelling, before the arrival of his creditor.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

Surely it is no dishonourable course of life which Moses and Jacob have made exemplary: ’tis a profession supported upon the natural way of acquisition, and though contemned by the Egyptians , much countenanced by the Hebrews, whose sacrifices required plenty of Sheep and Lambs.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

" It is not easy to a passenger sauntering or hurrying down the Strand at this day, admiring the facade of Somerset House, glancing into the windows of rich shops, elbowing his way through an eager and bustling crowd, and having his ears stunned by the thundering rumble of cabs, busses, and wagons, to fancy it once a sandy and marshy road, and the footpath very disagreeable to the feet, and interfered with by bushes and thickets.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

We shall first deal with parasites which have no green leaves or chlorophyll, and are therefore entirely dependent on outside sources for their supply of organic material, starting with the interesting Dodders ( Cuscuta ), which coil themselves round herbs, [341] shrubs, or even trees, and produce sucking organs on their stems that come in contact with their host.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux