This fact escaped the observation of one who did not see the situation.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Less numerous, but far more conspicuous, are the dressed-to-the-minute women who, like sheep exactly, follow every turn of latest fashion blindly and without the slightest sense of distance or direction.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

On this account they are said to have become bolder than they should be, and to have first shown this spirit towards their husbands, ruling uncontrolled over their households, and afterwards in public matters, where they freely expressed their opinions upon the most important subjects.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

sulhælmesse f. ecclesiastical tax on ploughed land .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Gass and bring the ballance of R. Fields's Elk. in the evening they returned with the balance of the flesh of five Elk, that of one of them having become tainted and unfit for uce.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

During the Shakespere tercentenary festival at Stratford-on-Avon, the Bishop of St. Andrews declared that there is not a word in the Bible warranting homage to Intellect, and such a boast beside the grave of the most intellectual of Englishmen is in itself a survival illustrating the tremendous curse hurled by jealous Jehovah on man’s first effort to obtain knowledge.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It would be impossible for us to follow the indefatigable missionary in his multifarious activities in Berlin and in Germany generally during these busy years; but we may be allowed to quote from a published letter which he addressed in 1887 to English friends, entitled, "Thoughts on the Jewish Mission": "Invitations came to give lectures in places at a distance.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Moreover, the methods used for effective teaching of the languages were well developed; the inertia of academic custom was on their side.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

They want the King over the marches, that so Emperor Leopold and the German Princes, whose troops are ready, may have a pretext for beginning: 'this,' adds Carra, 'is the word of the riddle: this is the reason why our fugitive Aristocrats are now making levies of men on the frontiers; expecting that, one of these mornings, the Executive Chief Magistrate will be brought over to them, and the civil war commence.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

] H2 anchor Bill Of Rights In addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution Article I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

None could be found except that of rendering this company a commercial one; this was, under a gentler name, a name vague and unpretending, to hand over to it the entire and exclusive commerce of the country.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The Royal Navy of Great Britain is conducted under the direction of the lords-commissioners for executing the office of lord high-admiral, and by the following principal officers under them:—the controller of the navy, controlling dockyards, building, &c., with his staff; the accountant-general, store-keeper general, and controller of victualling.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The unlimited license which is apparently given to Utopias by the unsettled character of the time is in reality a bar to their practical influence, since even the wildest dreamers shrink from extravagance that oversteps the ordinary conditions of mental sanity.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

And as we find from experience that our missionaries, wherever they are brought in contact with these savages, do make them wiser and happier, we ask God to inspire more persons with the desire of improving the heathen, and to teach them how to improve them.
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley

We hear also of jarls or earls, either as Viking leaders or as definite territorial rulers, as for example the Orkney-earls and more than one earl who is mentioned as ruling in Dublin, but these earls usually held their lands under the authority of a king.
— from The Vikings by A. (Allen) Mawer

I created the office of "character-divers," and selected for the discharge of its duties eminent men of great sagacity and gentleness, skilled in the knowledge of the mind and heart, their sole occupation being to discover the qualities, tendencies, and incipient faults of children, and act accordingly; to dive, as it were, into the secret imaginings of the child; to detect the early germ of evil, and note the presence of good; to indicate measures for eradicating the one and developing the other.
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

The Scotch Protestants expected to have the hardest part of the work done for them, and to be paid for executing their own share of it.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

This dominion of [Pg 551] the Greeks over the west of India was succeeded by other foreign empires, that of the Sacæ from Arachosia (Sejestan), that of the Tibetan nomads, the Yuechis, the Indo-scyths from Bactria.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Those who were drunk were joined by those who were sober, till the whole number far exceeded that of the English detachment.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould