For every bag of coffee which is in warehouse over forty-eight hours from the time of its arrival from the railroad there is a charge of two hundred reis (about five cents).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[306] for everybody, but only for those who have knowledge of the geometrical principles employed in calculation and in multiplication.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

I remember (and I hardly remember anything else) that he seemed to have rendered the imposture of him whom he judged to be guilty, so wonderful and so far exceeding both our knowledge and his own, who was the judge, that I thought it a very bold sentence that condemned him to be hanged.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I once, indeed, thought it best not to set down the names of this family, especially because of their difficult pronunciation [by the Greeks]; but, upon the whole, I think it necessary to mention those names, that I may disprove such as believe that we came not originally from Mesopotamia, but are Egyptians.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

All that can be expected of the creature in respect of the hope of this participation would be the consciousness of his tried character, by which from the progress he has hitherto made from the worse to the morally better, and the immutability of purpose which has thus become known to him, he may hope for a further unbroken continuance of the same, however long his existence may last, even beyond this life, * and thus he may hope, not indeed here, nor in any imaginable point of his future existence, but only in the endlessness of his duration (which God alone can survey) to be perfectly adequate to his will (without indulgence or excuse, which do not harmonize with justice).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Although everybody was aware of this blot in his scutcheon, he was mortally angry if ever his origin was suspected; and made up for his fathers’ errors by outrageous professions of religion, and the most austere practices of devotion.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The plain was covered with the strangest trees, there were whole avenues where partridges, ready roasted, hung from every branch, or, if you preferred pheasants, quails, turkeys, or rabbits, you had only to turn to the right hand or to the left and you were sure to find them.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

In our city, which aboundeth in all good things, there was once a young lady both gently born and very fair, who was the wife of a very worthy and notable gentleman; and as it happeneth often that folk cannot for ever brook one same food, but desire bytimes to vary their diet, this lady, her husband not altogether satisfying her, became enamoured of a young man called Leonetto and very well bred and agreeable, for all he was of no great extraction.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

This Christmas I judged it fit to look over all my papers and books; and to tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping, or fit to be seen, if it should please God to take me away suddenly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We may here remark parenthetically that the old herbals are full of the most delightfully quaint reading, and are often freely illustrated with pictures at least as curious, the frontispieces especially being of the most elaborate and allegorical nature.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

The agnostics do not deny the existence of a Divine Being, but merely maintain that we have no scientific ground for either belief or denial.— Bibliography : Sir Leslie Stephen, An Agnostic's Apology ; R. Flint, Agnosticism ; J. Ward, Naturalism and Agnosticism .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

We may have been biassed by the feelings excited by our own distressing situation.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

He has written a chapter on English birds and picks out the song of the blackbird for excellence because of its "spiritual quality."
— from Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. by Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount

" Something in his manner, more than in his words, made me comprehend that Miss Blake had borrowed money from him, and not repaid it, so I did not press for further explanation, but only asked him once again what I ought to do about calling upon Colonel Morris.
— from The Uninhabited House by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

At last, a long, wild valley opened ahead, showing no trace of human habitation; at its far end began open land, dotted with small tobacco farms where automatic cultivators moved unhurriedly about.
— from The Other Likeness by James H. Schmitz

Secondly, the inordinate concupiscence is considered as to the consumption of food: either because one forestalls the proper time for eating, which is to eat "hastily," or one fails to observe the due manner of eating, by eating "greedily."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The direction taken by modern industrial life towards the harmonious conciliation of both classes, by means of the wage-list, the wage-tariff, and the sliding scale with a fixed minimum wage for entire branches of [Pg 104] industry, and so forth, promises an important advance towards the establishment of a more normal wage-system.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

Representatives from every branch of the Army, in fact, whose turn for leave had come.
— from Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather