With longing arms, it struggles to embrace the Unspeakable; cannot embrace it, owing to certain causes.—Seldom do we find that a whole People can be said to have any Faith at all; except in things which it can eat and handle.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Lead us on paths of high endeavor, Toiling upward, climbing ever, Ready to suffer for the right, Until at last we gain a loftier height, More worthy to behold Our guiding stars, our hero-stars of gold.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

They were about to receive, in the Congressional elections, the usual chastisement experienced by a dominant party when the people vote in a period of hard times; the inflation act was an anchor thrown desperately to windward.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

General ideas the presiding principle which regulates every part of Art; Invention, Expression, Colouring, and Drapery.—Two distinct styles in history-painting; the grand and the ornamental.—The schools in which each is to be found.—The composite style.—The style formed on local customs and habits, or a partial view of nature 39 DISCOURSE V. Circumspection required in endeavouring to unite contrary excellencies.—The expression of a mixed passion not to be attempted.—Examples of those who excelled in the great style.—Raffaelle, Michel Angelo, those two extraordinary men compared with each other.—The characteristical style.—Salvator Rosa mentioned as an example of that style; and opposed to Carlo Maratti.—Sketch of the characters of Poussin and Rubens.—These two Painters entirely dissimilar, but consistent with themselves.—This consistency required in all parts of the Art 58 DISCOURSE VI.
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

For if France and Spain were united under the Bourbon family, their armies would overawe Europe; their united colonial empires would surround and perhaps engulf the British colonies; their combined navies might drive the British from the seas.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Circumspection required in endeavouring to unite Contrary Excellencies.—The Expression of a Mixed Passion not to be attempted.—Examples of those who excelled in the Great Style;—Raffaelle, Michael Angelo: Those two Extraordinary Men compared with each other.
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

Walteri de Wykwane, Abb. de Winchcombe, perquisita spiritualia et temporalia, una cum ejusdem monasterii Constitutionibus et
— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet

“They keep the things and bring ’em to us clean every time.
— from Neighborhood Stories by Zona Gale